Heart rate is used as a measure of whether an orienting response has occurred.

The orienting response is a reaction to novel or significant stimuli.

The orienting response is believed to play an integral role in preference formation.

This neutral stimulus showed an orienting response, which indicated that the dog was paying attention.

The heart rate decreases during the orienting response.

"But the orienting response is still there, like a deer turning its head if it hears a funny noise.

The orienting response shows no evidence of heritability.

However, with repeated introduction of the same stimulus, the orienting response will decrease in intensity and eventually cease.

Both novelty and significance of a stimulation are implicated in the generation of an orienting response.

Orienting responses are heightened sensitivity experienced by an organism when exposed to a new or changing stimulus.

This usually involves an orienting response.

The monocular results imply that the crossed pathway is necessary for an orienting response to the decorticate half-field.

Fear, anger, startle response, orienting response and sexual feelings are all among the reactions which may produce similar skin conductance responses.

Orienting response is an organism's innate reaction to a novel stimulus, and it is a defensive response.

That is, the brain creates an "orienting response (OR), which is an automatic cognitive response to novel information".

Thus, the combined evidence of heart rate deceleration and an increase in skin conductance provides convergent evidence that an orienting response (OR) has occurred.

Specifically, the emotional significance of a stimulus, defined by its level of pleasantness, can affect the intensity of the orienting response toward focusing attention on a subject.

Both in anuran amphibians and mammals striatal efferents are, for example, involved in directed attention, i.e. gating an orienting response towards a sensory stimulus.

A somewhat more subtle interpretation of latent inhibition in terms of the known facts of habituation comes from considering the role of orienting responses (ORs).

A persisting central stimulus can largely suppress the orienting response, suggesting that cortically based mechanisms, when present, are prepotent in competition with the subcortical orienting mechanism.

Orienting responses to unexpected stimuli, arousal and worry, and cognitive activity can increase eccrine sweat gland activity, increasing the conductivity of the skin for electrical current.

In his 2007 book The Assault on Reason, Al Gore posited that watching television has an impact on the orienting response, an effect similar to vicarious traumatization.

By inserting edits, which are operationalized by the process of switching cameras or transitions in visual or audio media, media producers can elicit orienting responses in attentive viewers.

Orienting responses can result in overt, observable behaviors as well as psychophysiological responses such as EEG activity and undergo habituation with repeated presentation of the eliciting stimulus.

One possibility advanced by Kaye and Pearce (1984) is that the behavioural orienting response (OR) shown by rats to a localized stimulus might serve as a direct index of α.