Opening the "black box" of electrodermal activity in consumer neuroscience research

Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 238-249

  Lajante, Mathieu ^a   Droulers, Olivier ^a   Dondaine, Thibaut ^a   Amarantini, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

Emotional arousal; Integral of skin conductance responses; Signal processing method; Skin conductance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONSUMER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODERMAL ACTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMOTION; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; NEUROSCIENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RESEARCH; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; STANDARD; TELEVISION;

EID: 84874505250     PISSN: 1937321X     EISSN: 2151318X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0030680     Document Type: Article

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