Publications

Chilingar, M. S., Subotnik, K.L., Schell, A.M., Dawson, M.E., Ventura, J., Kelly, K.A., Mintz, J., Nuechterlein, K.H. (in press). Expressed emotion and electrodermal activity in recent onset schizophrenia.  Manuscript submitted for publication.

2009

Dawson, M. E. & Schell, A. M.(2009). Electrodermal response system. In D. Sander & K. R. Scherer (Eds.).Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences (pp. 135-136). Oxford University Press.

Dawson, M. E., & Schell, A. M. (2009). Is propositional learning necessary for human autonomic classical conditioning? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 205-206.

2008

Cosand, L. D., Cavanagh, T. M., Brown, A., Courtney, C. G., Rissling, A. J., Schell, A. M., & Dawson, M. E. (2008).  Arousal, working memory, and conscious awareness in contingency learning. Consciouness and Cognition, 17, 1105-1113.

Hazlett, E. A., Dawson, M. E., Schell, A. M., & Nuechterlein, K. H. (2008). Probing attentional dysfunctions in schizophrenia: Startle modulation during a continuous performance test. Psychophysiology, 45, 632–642. [PDF]

2007

Dawson, M. E., Rissling, A. J., Schell, A. M., & Wilcox, R. (2007). Under what conditions can human affective conditioning occur without contingency awareness?  A test of the evaluative conditioning paradigm. Emotion, 7, 755-766. [PDF]

Gao, Y., Raine, A., Dawson, M. E., Venables, P. H., & Mednick, S. A. (2007). Development of skin conductance orienting, habituation, and reorienting from ages 3 to 8 years: A longitudinal latent growth curve analysis. Psychophysiology, 44, 855-863. [PDF]

Rissling, A. J., Dawson, M. E., Schell, A. M., & Nuechterlein, K. H. (2007). Effects of cigarette smoking on prepulse inhibition, its attentional modulation, and vigilance performance. Psychophysiology, 44, 627-634. [PDF]

Dawson, M. E., Schell, A. M., & Filion, D. L. (2007). The electrodermal system. In J. T. Cacioppo, L. G. Tassinary & G. G. Berntson (Eds.), Handbook of Psychophysiology (3rd ed., pp. 159-181). New York: Cambridge University Press.

2006

(2006). Effects of perceptual load on startle reflex modification at a long lead interval. Psychophysiology, 43, 498-503 [PDF]

2005

(2005). Sensorimotor gating, orienting and social perception in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 73, 319-325. [PDF]

(2005). Effects of perceptual processing demands on startle eyeblink modification. Psychophysiology, 42(4), 440-446. [PDF]

(2005). Electrodermal predictors of functional outcome and negative symptoms in schizophrenia. Psychophysiology, 42(4), 483-492. [PDF]

(2005). Attention and prepulse inhibition: The effects of task-relevant, irrelevant, and no-task conditions. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 56, 121-128. [PDF]

2004

(2004). Prepulse inhibition of event - related brain potentials and startle eyeblink. Advances in Psychology Research, Vol 29. (pp 65-77) New York: Nova Science.

(2004).The functional relationship between visual backward masking effects and prepulse inhibition. Psychophysiology, 41, 306-312. [PDF]

(2004). Prepulse facilitation and prepulse inhibition in schizophrenia patients and their unaffected siblings. Biological Psychiatry, 55, 518-523. [PDF]

2003

(2003). Modification of the startle reflex in a community sample: Do one or two dimensions of psychopathy underlie emotional processing? Personality and Individual Differences, 35, 2007-2021. [PDF]

2002

(2002). What does electrodermal activity tell us about prognosis in the schizophrenia spectrum? Schizophrenia Research, 54, 87-93. [PDF]

(2002). Cross-modal prepulse modification of ERP and startle. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 43, 213-224.

(2002). The temporal stability of electrodermal variables over a one-year period in patients with recent-onset schizophrenia and in normal subjects. Psychophysiology, 39, 124-132. [PDF]

2001

(2001). Psychophysiology. In N.J. Smelser & P.B. Baltes (Eds.). International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Oxford: Pergamon Press.

(2001). Attentional stages of information processing during a continuous performance test: A startle modification analysis. Psychophysiology, 38, 669-677. [PDF]

(2001). Startle reactivity and PTSD symptoms in a community sample of women. Psychiatry Research,101, 157-169. [PDF]

2000

(2000). On the clinical and cognitive meaning of impaired sensorimotor gating in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research, 96, 187-197. [PDF]

(2000). The electrodermal system. In J.T. Cacioppo, L.G. Tassinary, & G.L. Bernston (Eds.). Handbook of Psychophysiology (pp. 200-223). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [PDF]

(2000) Automatic and controlled attentional processes in startle eyeblink modification: Effects of habituation of the prepulses. Psychophysiology, 37, 409-417. [PDF]

(2000). Discrete and continuous prepulses have differential effects on startle prepulse inhibition and skin conductance orienting. Psychophysiology, 37, 224-230. [PDF]

1999

(1999). Attentional modulation of short- and long-lead-interval modification of the acoustic startle eyeblink response: Comparing auditory and visual prestimuli. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 32, 239-250. [PDF]

(1999). Startle modification: Introduction and overview. In M. E. Dawson, A. M. Schell, & A. Boehmelt (Eds.). Startle Modification: Implications for neuroscience, cognitive science, and clinical science (pp. 6-18). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

(Eds.) (1999). Startle Modification: Implications for neuroscience, cognitive science, and clinical science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

(1998). Neurophysiological and psychophysiological approaches to schizophrenia and its pathogenesis. In S. J. Watson (Ed.), Psychopharmacology: The fourth generation of progress (CD-ROM Version 2). New York: Raven-Lippincott Press.

(1998). Neurocognitive vulnerability factors for schizophrenia: Convergence across genetic risk studies and longitudinal trait/state studies. In M. F. Lenzenweger & R. H. Dworkin (Eds.) Origins and development of schizophrenia: Advances in experimental psychopathology (pp. 299-327). Washington D. C.: American Psychological Association.

(1998). Affective reactions in the blink of an eye: Individual differences in subjective experience and physiological responses to emotional stimuli. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24, 1007-1018. [PDF]

(1998). A longitudinal analysis of eye tracking dysfunction and attention in recent-onset schizophrenia. Psychophysiology, 35, 443-451. [PDF]

(1998). The psychological significance of human startle eyeblink modification: A review. Biological Psychology, 47, 1-43. [PDF]

1997

(1997). Cognitive, clinical, and neurophysiological implications of startle modification. In P.J. Lang, R.F. Simons, & M.T. Balaban (Eds.), Attention and orienting: Sensory and motivational processes (pp. 257-279). Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum.

(1997). Electrodermal activity as a prodromal sign in schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry, 41, 111-113. [PDF]

(1997). Autonomic orienting and the allocation of processing resources in schizophrenia patients and putatively at-risk individuals. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 106, 171-181.

1996

(1996). The varying time courses of attentional and affective modulation of the startle eyeblink reflex. Psychophysiology, 33, 691-697.

(1996). Tracking early and late stages of information processing: Contributions of startle blink reflex modification. Psychophysiology, 33, 148-155.

1995

(1995). Responses conditioned to fear-relevant stimuli survive extinction of the expectancy of the UCS. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 18, 312-313.

(1995). Attentional modulation of startle in psychosis-prone college students. Psychophysiology, 32, 266-273.

(1995). Neurophysiological and psychophysiological approaches to schizophrenia. In F.E. Bloom & D. J. Kupfer (Eds.), Psychopharmacology: The Fourth Generation of Progress (pp. 1235-1244). New York:Raven Press.

(1995). Attention, startle eyeblink modification, and psychosis proneness. In A. Raine, T. Lencz, & S.A. Mednick (Eds.), Schizotypal personality (pp. 250-271). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

1994

(1994). Information-processing abnormalities as neuropsychological vulnerability indicators for schizophrenia. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 90 (Supplement 384), 71-79.

(1994). The effect of repeated prepulse-blink reflex trials on blink reflex modulation at short lead intervals. Biological Psychology, 38, 19-36.

Dawson, M.E., Nuechterlein, K.H., Schell, A.M., Gitlin, M., & Ventura, J. (1994). Autonomic abnormalities in schizophrenia: State or trait indicators? Archives of General Psychiatry, 51, 813-824.

1994). The vulnerability/stress model of schizophrenic relapse: A longitudinal study. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 89(Supplement 382), 58-64.

(1994). Neuropsychological vulnerability to schizophrenia. In A. Davids & J. Cutling (Eds.), The neuropsychology of schizophrenia (pp. 53-77). London: Erlbaum.

Freedman, L.W., Scerbo, A.S., Dawson, M.E., Raine, A., McClure, W.O., & Venables, P.H. (1994). The relationship of sweat gland count to electrodermal activity. Psychophysiology, 31, 196-200.

(1994). Probing the orienting response with startle modification and secondary reaction time. Psychophysiology, 31, 68-78. 1993

(1993). The skin conductance orienting response, attention, and schizophrenia. In J.C. Roy, W. Boucsein, D.C. Fowles, & J.H. Gruzelier (Eds.), Progress in electrodermal research (pp. 207-221.) New York: Plenum.

(1993). Attention and schizophrenia: Impaired modulation of the startle reflex. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 102, 633-641.

(1993). Modification of the acoustic startle-reflex eyeblink: A tool for investigating early and late attentional processes. Biological Psychology, 35, 185-200.

(1993). [Review of Attention and information processing in infants and adults: Perspectives from human and animal research.] Psychophysiology, 30, 316-317.

(1993). Reduced regional brain glucose metabolism assessed by PET in electrodermal nonresponder schizophrenics: A pilot study. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 102, 39-46.

1992

(1992). Developmental processes in schizophrenic disorders: Longitudinal studies of vulnerability and stress. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 18, 387-425.

(1992). Electrodermal abnormalities in recent-onset schizophrenia: Relationships to symptoms and prognosis. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 18, 295-311.

(1992). Electrodermal lability: Individual differences affecting perceptual speed and vigilance performance in 9 to 16 year old children. Psychophysiology, 29, 207-217.

(1992). A major effect of recording site on measurement of electrodermal activity. Psychophysiology, 29, 241-246.

(1992). Concurrent and predictive electrodermal correlates of symptomatology in recent-onset schizophrenic patients. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 101, 153-164.

1991

(1991). Information-processing anomalies in the early phases of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Schizophrenia Research, 5, 195-196.

(1991). Probing the time-course of the auditory oddball P3 with secondary reaction time. Psychophysiology, 28, 609-618.

(1991). The relationship between skin conductance orienting and the allocation of processing resources. Psychophysiology, 28, 410-424.

(1991). Effects of the use of potentially phobic CSs on retention, reinstatement, and extinction of the conditioned skin conductance response. Psychophysiology, 28, 140-153.

(1991). Heterogeneity, orienting, and habituation in schizophrenia. Behavioral and Brain Sciences (Commentary), 14, 24-25.

(1991). Testing vulnerability models: Stability of potential vulnerability indicators across clinical state. In H. Hafner & W.F. Gattaz (Eds.), Search for the causes of schizophrenia (Vol. 2, pp. 177-191). Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.

1990

(1990). Psychophysiology at the interface of clinical science, cognitive science, and neuroscience. Psychophysiology, 27, 243-255.

(1990). Where does the truth lie? [Review of The polygraph test: Lies, truth, and science.] Psychophysiology, 27, 120-121.

(1990). The electrodermal response system. In J.T. Cacioppo & L.G. Tassinary (Eds.), Principles of psychophysiology: Physical, social and inferential elements (pp. 295-324). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

1989

(1989). Is elicitation of the autonomic orienting response associated with allocation of processing resources? Psychophysiology, 26, 560-572.

(1989). Schizophrenic disorders. In G. Turpin (Ed.), Handbook of clinical psychophysiology (pp. 393-418). New York: Wiley & Sons.

(1989). Attentional resource allocation and autonomic orienting. In N. Bond & D. Siddle (Eds.), Psychobiology: Issues and applications (pp. 133-147). New York: Elsevier.

(1989). Awareness of the CS-UCS contingency and classical conditioning of skin conductance responses with olfactory CSs. Biological Psychology, 29, 39-60.

(1989). Patient-environment relationships in schizophrenia: Information processing, communication deviance, autonomic arousal, and stressful life events. British Journal of Psychiatry, 155 (Suppl. 5), 84-89.

1988

(1988). Psychophysiological correlates of electrodermal lability. Psychophysiology, 25, 619-632.

1987

(1987). The role of autonomic dysfunctions within a vulnerability/stress model of schizophrenic disorders. In D. Magnusson & A. Ohman (Eds.), Psychopathology: An interactional perspective (pp. 41-57). Orlando: Academic Press.

(1987). Human autonomic and skeletal classical conditioning: The role of conscious cognitive factors. In G. Davey (Ed.), Cognitive processes and Pavlovian conditioning in humans (pp. 27-55). New York: Wiley and Sons.

(1987). Electrodermal lability and rapid vigilance decrement in a degraded stimulus continuous performance task. Journal of Psychophysiology, 1, 249-257.

(1987). Androstenol, a putative human pheromone, affects human (Homo sapiens) male choice performance. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 101, 210-212.

1986

(1986). Greater resistance to extinction of electrodermal responses conditioned to potentially phobic CSs: A non-cognitive process? Psychophysiology, 23, 552-561.

(1986). Attentional vulnerability indicators, thought disorder, and negative symptoms. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 12, 408-426.

Nuechterlein, K.H., Snyder, K.S., Dawson, M.E., Rappe, S., Gitlin, M., & Fogelson, D (1986). Expressed emotion, fixed-dose fluphenazine decanoate maintenance, and relapse in recent-onset schizophrenia. Psychopharmacology Bulletin, 22, 633-639.

1985

(1985). Information processing and human autonomic classical conditioning. In P.K. Ackles, J.R. Jennings, & M.G.H. Coles (Eds.), Advances in psychophysiology, Vol. 1 (pp. 89-165). Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press.

(1985). Increased critical stimulus duration: Vulnerability or episode indicator? Schizophrenia Bulletin, 11, 344-346.

(1985). Diagnostic utility of autonomic measures for major depressive disorders. Psychiatry Research, 15, 261-270.

1984

(1984). Psychophysiological dysfunctions in the developmental course of schizophrenic disorders. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 10, 204-232.

(1984a). Information processing and attentional functioning in the developmental course of schizophrenic disorders. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 10, 160-203.

(1984b). A heuristic vulnerability/stress model of schizophrenic episodes. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 10, 300-312.

(1984). The nature and problem of schizophrenia. In A.S. Bellack (Ed.), Schizophrenia: Treatment, management, and rehabilitation (pp. 1-34). New York: Grune and Stratton.

1983

(1983). Relapse in schizophrenic disorders: Possible contributing factors and implications for behavior therapy. In M. Rosenbaum, C.M. Franks, & Y. Jaffe (Eds.), Perspectives on behavior therapy in the eighties (pp. 265-286). New York: Springer.

(1983). Lateral asymmetries in electrodermal responses to non- attended stimuli: A reply to Walker and Ceci. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 9, 148-150.

1982

(1982). Electrodermal responses to attended and non-attended significant stimuli during dichotic listening. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 8, 315-324.

(1982). Allocation of cognitive processing capacity during human autonomic classical conditioning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 111, 273-295.

1980

(1980). Physiological detection of deception: Measurement of responses to questions and answers during countermeasure maneuvers. Psychophysiology, 17, 8-17.

1979

(1979). The orienting response and subjective assessment of stimulus significance. In H.D. Kimmel, E.H. van Olst, & J.F. Orlebeke (Eds.), The orienting reflex in humans (pp. 417-422). New York: Lawrence Erlbaum.

(1979). Autonomic classical conditioning as a function of awareness of stimulus contingencies. Biological Psychology, 9, 23-40.

1978

(1978). Emotions and bodily responses: A psychophysiological approach. New York: Academic Press.

(1978). Expectancy of the UCS during avoidance conditioning of the SCR. Psychophysiology, 15, 148-157.

(1978). Elicitation of subjective uncertainty during vasomotor and electrodermal discrimination classical conditioning. Psychophysiology, 15, 1-8.

1977

(1977). Autonomic correlates of depression and clinical improvement following electroconvulsive shock therapy. Psychophysiology, 14, 569-578.

(1977). The onset of contingency awareness and electrodermal classical conditioning: An analysis of temporal relationships during acquisition and extinction. Psychophysiology, 14, 164-171.

1976

(1976). The role of awareness in human differential autonomic classical conditioning: The necessary gate hypothesis. Psychophysiology, 13, 50-53.

1974

(1974). Electrodermal studies of minimal brain dysfunction children. In C.K. Conners (Ed.), Symposium on clinical use of stimulant drugs in children (pp. 87-97).Excerpta Medica.

1973

(1973). Complex variables in conditioning. In W.F. Prokasy & D.C. Raskin (Eds.), Electrodermal activity in psychological research (pp. 203-254). New York: Academic Press.

(1973). Can classical conditioning occur without contingency learning? A review and evaluation of the evidence. Psychophysiology, 10, 82-86.

(1973). Concurrent measurement of awareness and electrodermal classical conditioning. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 101, 55-62.

(1973). Situational generality of conditioning phenomena: Stimulus generalization and component interaction. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 98, 440-442.

(1973). Construct validity of recall and recognition post-conditioning measures of awareness. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 98, 308-315.

1971

(1971). Electrodermal correlates of hyperactivity in children. Psychophysiology, 8, 191-197.

1970

(1970). Cognition and conditioning: Effects of masking the CS-UCS contingency on human GSR classical conditioning. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 85, 389-396.