EMG reducer Type: Other Brand: EMG Product Name: Reducer
Product Name: Reducer
Brand: EMG
According to reducer/augmenter theory,augmenters are assumed to react to sensory stimuli with enhanced responsiveness, whereas reducers respond to the same stimuli with dampened responsiveness. An augmenter is someone who amplifies or increases incoming sensory stimulation, whereas a reducer dampens or decreases such sensory stimulation.
Reducers, as the name suggests, take in two things: previous state and an action. Then they reduce it (read it return) to one entity: the new updated instance of state. So reducers are basically pure JS functions whichtake in the previous state and an action and return the newly updated state.
Reducers: As we already know, actions only tell what to do, but they don't tell how to do, so reducers arethe pure functions that take the current state and action and return the new state and tell the store how to do Augmenting-reducing theory describes temperament-related differences in the modulation of stimulation. Reducers are supposed to need more stimulation than augmenters because of a cortical attenuation of incoming stimuli. The study investigated differences between augmenters and reducers (classified by questionnaire) in performance and information processing strategies in a simple reaction time task. Fifty-two subjects (27 augmenters, 25 reducers) took part in a visual reaction time task with go- and catch-trials (30%). Reaction times, commission errors, and psychophysiological indicators of information processing (N1, P300, EMG) were recorded. Reducers were faster and exhibited more commission errors than augmenters. Moreover, reducers exhibited higher N1-amplitudes, faster EMG-onsets and higher EMG-amplitudes than augmenters. An additional pain tolerance test revealed that male reducers were more pain tolerant than the other participants. These results are consistent with the proposition that reducers have a higher need for stimulation than augmenters. Probably, they utilize locomotor activity in order to compensate for their attenuated arousal.