Interstimulus intervals for skin conductance response measurement
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This study examined, using the Concealed Information paradigm, whether interstimulus intervals (ISI) typically used for electrodermal measurement can be shortened. An ISI ranging from 16 s to 24 s (with a mean of 20 s) was compared with an ISI shortened by 50% using a within-participants design. It was demonstrated that this shortening had no effect on the differential skin conductance responses to the personally significant details and nearly identical detection efficiency was observed under the 2 ISIs. However, overall responses were attenuated with the shorter ISI. The implications of these results for various types of studies, using skin conductance responses, were discussed.
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Similar results for SCR have been observed when using different design choices or preprocessing pipelines.
“However, similar results for SCR have been observed when using different design choices (i.e., different interstimulus timing) (72) or preprocessing pipelines (e.g., scoring windows) (73).”
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- Authors
- Breska, A., Maoz, K., & Ben‐Shakhar, G.
- Affiliations
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL)
- Venue
- Psychophysiology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2011-03
- Volume
- 48
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 437-440
- ISSN
- 0048-5772 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-8986
- OpenAlex
- W1953300312
- Cited by
- 43
- References
- 23
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- FWCI
- 3.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychophysiology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Deception detection and forensic psychology
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Emotion and Mood Recognition
- Keywords
- interstimulus interval, skin conductance response, concealed information test, electrodermal activity, detection efficiency
- MeSH terms
- Acoustic Stimulation, Adult, Analysis of Variance, Female, Galvanic Skin Response, Humans, Lie Detection, Male, Time Factors
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