DIGITAL RECORDING AND ANALYSIS OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC EXPERIMENTS,

Abstract

A data collection system for the recording of autonomic nervous system variables was constructed in order to facilitate data reduction for a number of experiments in which autonomic nervous system reactions are of interest as the dependent variables. This system is employed in experiments on pain perception, feedback of emotional reactions, the subject's facilitation or inhibition of his autonomic reactions by self-initiated signals, and the conditioning of autonomic nervous system reactions to critical symbols and their generalization to related symbols. Continuous samplings of seven data channels are being recorded in sevenchannel IBM format on digital magnetic tape: (a) reaction time, (b) skin conductance, (c) heartrate, (d) digital blood flow, (e) respiration, (f) muscle action potential, and (g) body movement. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1963
Accession Number
AD0615437

Entities

People

  • Herbert Zimmer

Organizations

  • University of Georgia

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Autonomic Nervous System
  • Biological Sciences
  • Blood Flow
  • Data Reduction
  • Feedback
  • Inhibition
  • Magnetic Tape
  • Nervous System
  • Perception
  • Reaction Time
  • Respiration
  • Sampling
  • Tapes

Readers

  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.