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Publication recommendations for electrodermal measurements

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Society for Psychophysiological Research Ad Hoc Committee on Electrodermal Measures·2012·Psychophysiology
DOI 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2012.01384.x
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This committee was appointed by the SPR Board to provide recommendations for publishing data on electrodermal activity ( EDA ). They are intended to be a stand‐alone source for newcomers and experienced users. A short outline of principles for electrodermal measurement is given, and recommendations from an earlier report (Fowles et al., ) are incorporated. Three fundamental techniques of EDA recording are described: (1) endosomatic recording without the application of an external current, (2) exosomatic recording with direct current (the most widely applied methodology), and (3) exosomatic recording with alternating current—to date infrequently used but a promising future methodology. In addition to EDA recording in laboratories, ambulatory recording has become an emerging technique. Specific problems that come with this recording of EDA in the field are discussed, as are those emerging from recording EDA within a magnetic field (e.g., fMRI ). Recommendations for the details that should be mentioned in publications of EDA methods and results are provided.

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  • Electrodermal activity provides an index of sympathetic nervous system activity because eccrine sweat glands are innervated by the sympathetic but not parasympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system.

    “Electrodermal activity is defined as the electrical conductivity between two electrodes on the skin over time; it provides an index of sympathetic nervous system activity since eccrine sweat glands are innervated by the sympathetic but not parasympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system (55).”

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    Section 1.2 describes measuring changes in skin conductance, and Section 3.2 treats skin conductance measures as indices of sympathetic nervous system arousal. The cited paper does not state the sentence’s specific explanation that eccrine sweat glands have sympathetic but no parasympathetic innervation. (LLM, conf=0.85)

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  • The data quality was checked by examining whether each eligible record used an SCR extraction technique that matched the typical recommendations for the field.

    “The data quality was checked by examining whether each eligible record used an SCR extraction technique (70,71) that matched the typical recommendations for the field.”

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Venue
Psychophysiology
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2012-06-08
Volume
49
Issue
8
Pages
1017-1034
ISSN
  • 0048-5772 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-8986
DOI
10.1111/j.1469-8986.2012.01384.x
OpenAlex
W4242743388
Cited by
1,288
References
82
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FWCI
19.14
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor)
Locations
  • Psychophysiology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Emotion and Mood Recognition
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
Keywords
electrodermal activity, skin conductance, publication recommendations, magnetic interference, functional MRI
MeSH terms
Electric Stimulation, Electrodes, Electromagnetic Fields, Galvanic Skin Response, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Psychophysiology, Publications, Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted, Skin Physiological Phenomena, Artifacts, Monitoring, Ambulatory

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