Cardiovascular Psychophysiology

Paul A. Obrist, A.H. Black, Jasper Brener, Leo V. DiCara

I: Cardiovascular Function and Measurement; 1: Mechanisms of the Cardiovascular Responses to Environmental Stressors; 2: A Selective Review of Central Neural Pathways Involved in Cardiovascular Control; 3: Psychophysiology of Peripheral Vascular Changes; 4: Indirect Indices of Contractile Force; 5: The Indirect Recording of Human Blood Pressure; 6: Techniques for Long-Term Direct Measurements of Cardiovascular Variables; II: Cardiovascular Function — Experimental Studies; 7: Analysis of the Final Common Path for Heart Rate Conditioning; 8: The Cardiac-Somatic Interaction; 9: Comparative Psychophysiology of the Electrodermal and Cardiac Control Systems; 10: The Relationship Between Learned and Unlearned Cardiovascular Responses; 11: Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Activity During Behavioral Hypertension in the Squirrel Monkey; III: Animal Operant Conditioning; 12: Operant Autonomic Conditioning: The Analysis of Response Mechanisms; 13: Respiratory and Somatomotor Factors Associated with Operant Conditioning of Cardiovascular Responses in Curarized Rats; 14: Some Critical Methodological Variables Involved in Visceral Learning; 15: The Learning of Autonomie Responses by Curarized Animals; 16: Visceral Learning: Recent Difficulties with Curarized Rats and Significant Problems for Human Research; 17: Comparative Studies of Operant Electrodermal and Heart Rate Conditioning in Curarized Rats; 18: Some Problems in the Use of Neuromuscular Blockade; IV: Human Operant Conditioning; 19: A General Model of Voluntary Control Applied to the Phenomena of Learned Cardiovascular Change; 20: Learned Control of Human Heart Rate in a Computer Directed Environment; 21: Toward a Theory of Voluntary Control of Response Patterns in the Cardiovascular System; 22: Opérant-Feedback Control of Human Blood Pressure: Some Clinical Issues; 23: Application of Operant Conditioning Techniques to the Control of the Cardiac Arrhythmias; V: Heart Rate — Attentional and Motivational Processes; 24: Cardiac Conditioning and Orienting in the Infant; 25: The Motivational Significance of Heart Rate; 26: Studies of Heart Rate and Other Bodily Processes in Sensorimotor Behavior; Summary