Papers by Kristine Santoro
Planning and Implementing an Organizational Health Assessment in a Community Mental Health Setting
Community Mental Health Journal
Vibrotactile Forward Masking: Effects of Masker Duration and Sensation Level
PsycEXTRA Dataset
Handbook of Social Support and the Family, 1996
This symposium brings together several researchers studying different aspects of human-computer i... more This symposium brings together several researchers studying different aspects of human-computer interaction. All of the researchers share the assumption that it is important to understand the cognitive processes involved in human-computer situations. Each presentation focuses on a unique aspect of the cognitive component of human-computer situations, however.
Vibrotactile forward masking: Effects of the amplitude and duration of the masking stimulus
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1995
Tactile thresholds for detecting a 50-ms signal presented 25 ms after the termination of a maskin... more Tactile thresholds for detecting a 50-ms signal presented 25 ms after the termination of a masking stimulus increased as a function of the amplitude level and duration of the masking stimulus. The effects were similar in both the P and NP I channels measured at 250 and 20 Hz, respectively. It was concluded that the increased masking caused by increasing the duration of the masking stimulus resulted from processes other than or in addition to temporal integration—the latter being a characteristic of the P, but not the NP I, channel. The slopes of the masking functions, in which threshold shifts were plotted as a function of masking-stimulus sensation level, were consistently greater for 20-Hz than for the 250-Hz stimuli, suggesting that masking efficiency is greater in the NP I than in the P channel.
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1995
Vibrotactile thresholds were found to increase as a function of the duration and intensity of a f... more Vibrotactile thresholds were found to increase as a function of the duration and intensity of a forward masking stimulus and to decrease as a function of the time interval between the termination of the masking stimulus and the onset of the signal (Δt) and signal duration. The effects of the intensity and duration of the masking stimulus were similar for both the P and NPI channels as indicated by the nearly identical results measured at 250 and 20 Hz. The observed declines in threshold as a function of Δt and signal duration were both attributed to an increase in the time interval between the offset of the masking stimulus and the offset of the signal.
Anxiety, Stress & Coping, 1996
Stressful life events and learned helplessness attributional styles have been shown to impact a v... more Stressful life events and learned helplessness attributional styles have been shown to impact a variety of personal outcomes. This study examined how these factors influence two classes of cognitive behaviors: the occurrence of intrusive thoughts and performance in memory and verbal-spatial reasoning tasks. Negative life change and attributions for negative events predicted different types of cognitive responses. Individuals reporting higher levels of life stress were more likely to experience distracting thoughts that were unrelated to the current task, whereas individuals with learned helplessness attributional styles tended to have more worrisome thoughts about their task performance. In general, individuals reporting high levels of negative life stress tended to perform more poorly in tasks, whereas individuals with learned helplessness attributional styles tended to perform better than those who did not share this explanatory style. These results suggest that life stress and attributional style have important influecnes on cognitive processes, and that a learned helplessness attributional style can have beneficial effects on behavior in some situations.
Adult Age Differences in Conscious and Unconscious Influences on Memory for Novel Associations
Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition (Neuropsychology, Development and Cognition: Section B), 1998
... Kristine Santoro is now at the Department of Psychology at the University of California at Lo... more ... Kristine Santoro is now at the Department of Psychology at the University of California at Los Angeles. ... Influences on Memory for Novel Associations* John M. Rybash1, Kristine E. Santoro1, and William J. Hoyer2 1Hamilton College and 2Syracuse University ABSTRACT ...
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Papers by Kristine Santoro