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. 2015 Dec 18;6:146. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00146

Table 3.

EBC stimulus properties for studies of EBC in schizophrenia.

Study CS properties
US properties
Auditory
Visual
US intensity (psi) US intensity measurementlocation Dur. (ms)
Modality Freq. (Hz) Intensity CS intensity measurement Dur. (ms) Modality Intensity CS intensity measurement Dur. (ms)
Taylor and Spence (54) 6 cm milk glass disk 24 Apparent foot-candles 520 30 mmHg = 0.58 psi Mercury manometer
O’Connor and Rawnsley (55) Tone 1100 65 dB above threshold for each subject 800 65 mmHg = 1.26 psi N/A 500
Spain (56)
 Auditory Tone 1000 60 “Decibels in loudness” 1000 1 g Measured at eye 160
 Visual Milk glass disk 700 Millilamberts 1000 1 g Measured at eye 160
Sears et al. (57) Tone 1000 75 dB 500 5 N/A 100
Hofer et al. (58) Tone 1000 65 dB SPL 800 4 N/A 80
Stevens et al. (59) Tone 300 80 dB SPL 800 2 bar = 29 psi N/A 100
Marenco et al. (60)
 Trace Tone 1000 80 dB 500 Between 5 and 6 N/A 100
 Delay Tone 1000 80 dB 500 Between 5 and 6 N/A 100
Brown et al. (61) Tone 1000 80 dB SPL 400 10 At the source 50
Edwards et al. (62) Tone 1000 80 dB SPL 400 10 At the source 50
Bolbecker et al. (63) Tone 1000 80 dB SPL 400 10 At the source 50
Bolbecker et al. (64) Tone 1000 80 dB SPL 300; 400; 600; 900 10 At the source 50
Forsyth et al. (65) Tone 1000 80 dB SPL 400 10 At the source 50
Parker et al. (66) Tone 1000 75 dB 500 5 N/A 100
Bolbecker et al. (67) Tone 1000 80 dB SPL 400 10 At the source 50
Coesmans et al. (68) Tone 650 75 dB 520 Adapted to minimum intensity required to reliably evoke a UR N/A 20