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Thresholds of vocalization to electroshock were determined in infant and juvenile monkeys during random epochs of wakefulness, during high-voltage, slow-wave sleep, and during low-voltage, fast-wave sleep. These thresholds increased in all states over the first days of postnatal life and then decreased differentially for each of the states thereafter.
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1. The data reported here were collected in the Laboratory of Perinatal Physiology, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, National Institutes of Health, United States Public Health Service, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Meier, G.W., Berger, R.J. Thresholds to arousing stimulation in the developing infant rhesus monkey. Psychon Sci 7, 247–248 (1967). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03331099
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