Innovations in electrodermal activity data collection and signal processing: A systematic review

HF Posada-Quintero, KH Chon - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
The electrodermal activity (EDA) signal is an electrical manifestation of the sympathetic
innervation of the sweat glands. EDA has a history in psychophysiological (including …

Safety learning and the Pavlovian conditioned inhibition of fear in humans: Current state and future directions

PAF Laing, BJ Harrison - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Safety learning occurs when an otherwise neutral stimulus comes to signal the absence of
threat, allowing organisms to use safety information to inhibit fear and anxiety in …

Revaluing the role of vmPFC in the acquisition of Pavlovian threat conditioning in humans

S Battaglia, S Garofalo, G di Pellegrino… - Journal of …, 2020 - Soc Neuroscience
The role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) in human pavlovian threat
conditioning has been relegated largely to the extinction or reversal of previously acquired …

Navigating the garden of forking paths for data exclusions in fear conditioning research

TB Lonsdorf, M Klingelhöfer-Jens, M Andreatta… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
In this report, we illustrate the considerable impact of researcher degrees of freedom with
respect to exclusion of participants in paradigms with a learning element. We illustrate this …

Psychophysiological responses to eye contact in a live interaction and in video call

JO Hietanen, MJ Peltola, JK Hietanen - Psychophysiology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Another person's gaze directed to oneself elicits autonomic arousal and facial reactions
indicating positive affect in its observer. These effects have only been found to occur with …

[HTML][HTML] Making eye contact with a robot: Psychophysiological responses to eye contact with a human and with a humanoid robot

H Kiilavuori, V Sariola, MJ Peltola, JK Hietanen - Biological psychology, 2021 - Elsevier
Previous research has shown that eye contact, in human-human interaction, elicits
increased affective and attention related psychophysiological responses. In the present …

Eye contact in virtual reality–A psychophysiological study

AH Syrjämäki, P Isokoski, V Surakka… - Computers in human …, 2020 - Elsevier
This experiment investigated whether eye contact would evoke similar attention and emotion
related psychophysiological responses in virtual reality (VR) as in a face-to-face interaction …

Multiverse analyses in fear conditioning research

TB Lonsdorf, A Gerlicher, M Klingelhöfer-Jens… - … Research and Therapy, 2022 - Elsevier
There is heterogeneity in and a lack of consensus on the preferred statistical analyses in
light of a multitude of potentially equally justifiable approaches. Here, we introduce …

[HTML][HTML] Pupil dilation and skin conductance as measures of prediction error in aversive learning

LE Stemerding, VA van Ast, AMV Gerlicher… - Behaviour Research and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Notwithstanding the success of CBT, it is relatively unknown how individuals can better profit
from corrective learning experiences. Various theories postulate that prediction errors–the …

Robust group-but limited individual-level (longitudinal) reliability and insights into cross-phases response prediction of conditioned fear

M Klingelhöfer-Jens, MR Ehlers, M Kuhn, V Keyaniyan… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Here, we follow the call to target measurement reliability as a key prerequisite for individual-
level predictions in translational neuroscience by investigating (1) longitudinal reliability at …