Journal
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 94, Issue 3, Pages 490-497Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2013.09.010
Keywords
Skin conductance responses (SCR); Galvanic skin response (GSR); Electrodermal activity (EDA); General linear convolution model (GLM); Generative model; Model inversion
Funding
- Wellcome Trust [098362/Z/12/Z, 091593/Z/10/Z]
- Senate of Berlin
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Model-based analysis of psychophysiological signals is more robust to noise - compared to standard approaches - and may furnish better predictors of psychological state, given a physiological signal. We have previously established the improved predictive validity of model-based analysis of evoked skin conductance responses to brief stimuli, relative to standard approaches. Here, we consider some technical aspects of the underlying generative model and demonstrate further improvements. Most importantly, harvesting between-subject variability in response shape can improve predictive validity, but only under constraints on plausible response forms. A further improvement is achieved by conditioning the physiological signal with high pass filtering. A general conclusion is that precise modelling of physiological time series does not markedly increase predictive validity; instead, it appears that a more constrained model and optimised data features provide better results, probably through a suppression of physiological fluctuation that is not caused by the experiment. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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