Verbal, Heart Rate, and Skin Conductance Responses to Sexual Cartoons

1980 ◽  
Vol 47 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1227-1232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randall E. Sekeres ◽  
William R. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Information Processing ◽  
Skin Conductance ◽  
Emotional Reaction ◽  
Heart Rates ◽  
Skin Conductance Responses ◽  
Processing Component ◽  
Female Subjects

Verbal, heart rate, and skin conductance responses were measured while 20 male and 20 female subjects viewed antimale and antifemale sexual cartoons. The verbal ratings indicated that males preferred both types of cartoons more than females. However, no differences between heart rate and skin conductance measures were noted between the sexes. Skin conductance indicated that both sexes produced greater response to the antimale than the antifemale cartoons. Also, heart rates decelerated 5 sec. after presentation of the cartoons. Skin conductance seems to reflect a possible emotional reaction to the cartoons, whereas heart rates may reflect an information-processing component.

scholarly journals Behavioral Triggers of Skin Conductance Responses and Their Neural Correlates in the Primate Amygdala

2009 ◽  
Vol 101 (4) ◽  
pp. 1749-1754 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher M. Laine ◽  
Kevin M. Spitler ◽  
Clayton P. Mosher ◽  
Katalin M. Gothard
Keyword(s):  
Skin Conductance ◽  
Single Unit ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Emotional Reaction ◽  
Neural Population ◽  
Experimental Conditions ◽  
Indirect Measure ◽  
Skin Conductance Responses ◽  
The Right ◽  
Sympathetic Arousal

The amygdala plays a crucial role in evaluating the emotional significance of stimuli and in transforming the results of this evaluation into appropriate autonomic responses. Lesion and stimulation studies suggest involvement of the amygdala in the generation of the skin conductance response (SCR), which is an indirect measure of autonomic activity that has been associated with both emotion and attention. It is unclear if this involvement marks an emotional reaction to an external stimulus or sympathetic arousal regardless of its origin. We recorded skin conductance in parallel with single-unit activity from the right amygdala of two rhesus monkeys during a rewarded image viewing task and while the monkeys sat alone in a dimly lit room, drifting in and out of sleep. In both experimental conditions, we found similar SCR-related modulation of activity at the single-unit and neural population level. This suggests that the amygdala contributes to the production or modulation of SCRs regardless of the source of sympathetic arousal.

Heart rate and skin conductance responses, their temporal integrity and relation to experienced arousal

1997 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Joni Kettunen ◽  
Petri Näätänen ◽  
Arto Ryynänen ◽  
Pertti Keskivaara ◽  
Liisa Keltikangas-Järvinen
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Skin Conductance ◽  
Skin Conductance Responses

Affective Context of Sadness and Physiological Response Patterns

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmitry M. Davydov ◽  
Emmanuelle Zech ◽  
Olivier Luminet
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Skin Conductance ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Skin Conductance Level ◽  
Pulse Transit Time ◽  
Response Patterns ◽  
Skin Conductance Responses ◽  
Facial Behavior ◽  
Facial Activity ◽  
Negative Feelings

This study was conducted to test the hypothesis that two films that induce a sad feeling would elicit different physiological responses depending on an additional context of the film contents related to either avoidance (disgust) or attachment (tenderness). Reactivity was evaluated for facial behavior, heart rate, pulse transit time, skin conductance, and subjective experience. Participants reported feeling less happy and showed increased facial activity related to the sad content of both films. The sad film related to avoidance induced an increase in skin conductance level and response rate. In contrast, the sad film related to attachment induced a decrease in amplitude of skin conductance responses and heart rate. The study showed that while the common sad content of both films disturbed mood or provoked negative feelings, additional affective contexts induced either a decrease or an increase in physiological arousal.

Evidence of a Decrease in Heart Rate and Skin Conductance Responses in PTSD Patients After a Single EMDR Session

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéphanie Aubert-Khalfa ◽  
Jacques Roques ◽  
Olivier Blin
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Skin Conductance ◽  
Traumatic Event ◽  
Stressful Events ◽  
Ptsd Symptoms ◽  
Psychophysiological Responses ◽  
Skin Conductance Responses ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Trauma Recall ◽  
Emdr Therapy

Patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) demonstrate abnormal psychophysiological responses to stressful events. Given that eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy appears to be a treatment of choice for trauma victims, the aim of the present study was to determine if psychophysiological responses to stress decreased after a single EMDR session. Six PTSD patients were treated by an EMDR therapist. Their psychophysiological responses (heart rate and skin conductance) were recorded before and after the EMDR session under two conditions: (a) in a relaxed state and (b) while visualizing their own traumatic event. At the end of the session, all patients had a significant reduction in their PTSD symptoms, which confirms previous results demonstrating the efficacy of the EMDR approach. Second, after only one EMDR session, heart rate and skin conductance during the trauma recall decreased significantly as compared to a relaxing state.

Hide or Seek? Physiological Responses Reflect Both the Decision and the Attempt to Conceal Information

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (10) ◽  
pp. 1424-1433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathalie klein Selle ◽  
Naama Agari ◽  
Gershon Ben-Shakhar
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Skin Conductance ◽  
Physiological Response ◽  
Response Pattern ◽  
Physiological Responses ◽  
Concealed Information Test ◽  
Skin Conductance Responses ◽  
Within Subjects ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms ◽  
Concealed Information

The process of information concealment is more relevant than ever in this day and age. Using a modified concealed-information test (CIT), we aimed to unmask this process by investigating both the decision and the attempt to conceal information in 38 students. The attempt to conceal (vs. reveal) information induced a differential physiological response pattern within subjects—whereas skin conductance increased in both conditions, respiration and heart rate were suppressed only in the conceal condition—confirming the idea that these measures reflect different underlying mechanisms. The decision to conceal (vs. reveal) information induced enhanced anticipatory skin conductance responses. To our knowledge, this is the first study that observed such anticipatory responses in an information-concealment paradigm. Together, these findings imply that our physiological responses reflect, to some degree, both the decision and the attempt to conceal information. In addition to strengthening CIT theory, this knowledge sheds novel light on anticipatory responding in decision making.

Effect of Speakers' Sex and Size of Audience on Heart-Rate Changes during Short Impromptu Speeches

1980 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra F. Baldwin ◽  
Theodore Clevenger
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Heart Rates ◽  
Arousal Pattern ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Female Subjects

This study was carried out to determine whether over-all heart rate and heart-rate arousal pattern ate similar for 10 male and 10 female speakers and in speaking situations with both a large as well as a small audience. Equal numbers of male and female subjects were exposed to normal-sized audiences of 21 and very small audiences of 3 during a short impromptu speech, and their heart rates monitored continuously before, during, and after speaking. With limited exception, patterns of heart-rate increment corresponded with those established in previous studies, although females conformed less closely to established patterns. Females experienced greater increment, on the average, than males, and their patterns of arousal differed in certain minor details. Before a small audience slightly greater increments were elicited than before a normal audience, and there were some indications that males and females responded differently to the two speaking situations.

scholarly journals Heart rate and skin conductance responses to signal and nonsignal stimuli

1972 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael G. H. Colest ◽  
Brian J. Sosdian ◽  
Ira J. Isaacson
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Skin Conductance ◽  
Skin Conductance Responses

scholarly journals Covert Face Recognition without Prosopagnosia

1993 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. D. Ellis ◽  
A. W. Young ◽  
G. Koenken
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Face Recognition ◽  
Brain Injury ◽  
Skin Conductance ◽  
Visual Information ◽  
Electrodermal Activity ◽  
Similar Work ◽  
Skin Conductance Responses ◽  
Electrodermal Responses ◽  
Unfamiliar Faces

An experiment is reported where subjects were presented with familiar or unfamiliar faces for supraliminal durations or for durations individually assessed as being below the threshold for recognition. Their electrodermal responses to each stimulus were measured and the results showed higher peak amplitude skin conductance responses for familiar than for unfamiliar faces, regardless of whether they had been displayed supraliminally or subliminally. A parallel is drawn between elevated skin conductance responses to subliminal stimuli and findings of covert recognition of familiar faces in prosopagnosic patients, some of whom show increased electrodermal activity (EDA) to previously familiar faces. The supraliminal presentation data also served to replicate similar work by Tranel et al (1985). The results are considered alongside other data indicating the relation between non-conscious, “automatic” aspects of normal visual information processing and abilities which can be found to be preserved without awareness after brain injury.

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