Abstract
The amplitude of the human eyeblink elicited by a mild tap between the eyebrows can be increased if a brief tone is presented simultaneously with the tap. In two experiments we examined how this reflex augmentation effect varies with changes in the frequency characteristics of the tone and with changes in the intensity of the tap. We also examined how these effects change in the course of development. For newborn infants and for adults, fixed intensity tones with frequencies of either 1, 2, or 4 kHz produced equivalent amounts of reflex augmentation. Furthermore, while blink amplitude was an increasing function of tap intensity in both populations, the amount of reflex augmentation engendered by a simultaneously presented tone was independent of the intensity of the tap.
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