Progress in Electrodermal Research

1. Front Matter

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2. On the Centennial of the Discovery of Electrodermal Activity

   1. On the Centennial of the Discovery of Electrodermal Activity

      • Vincent Bloch

      Pages 1-5

3. Methodological Issues

   1. Electrodermal Mechanisms: A Critique of the Two-Effector Hypothesis and a Proposed Replacement

      • Robert Edelberg

      Pages 7-29

   2. Methodological Issues in Electrodermal Measurement

      • Wolfram Boucsein

      Pages 31-41

   3. A New Approach to Circumventing the Conductance-Resistance Choice: Recording of Phase Angle Between Alternating-Current and -Voltage

      • Florian Schaefer

      Pages 43-48

   4. Electrodermal Activity and Psychopathology: The Development of the Palmar Sweat Index (PSI) as an Applied Measure for Use in Clinical Settings

      • Graham Turpin, Keith Clements

      Pages 49-59

   5. Electrodermal Activity as a Tool for Differentiating Psychological Processes in Human Experimental Preparations: Focus on the Psyche of Psychophysiology

      • John J. Furedy

      Pages 61-71

4. Neural Control of Eda

   1. Neural Control of Electrodermal Activity: Spinal and Reticular Mechanisms

      • Jean-Claude Roy, Henrique Sequeira, Bernard Delerm

      Pages 73-92

   2. Cortical and Hypothalamo-Limbic Control of Electrodermal Responses

      • Henrique Sequeira, Jean-Claude Roy

      Pages 93-114

   3. Brain Imaging Research on Electrodermal Activity in Humans

      • Adrian Raine, Todd Lencz

      Pages 115-135

5. General Psychophysiology

   1. Gateways to Consciousness: Emotion, Attention, and Electrodermal Activity

      • Arne Öhman, Francisco Esteves, Anders Flykt, Joaquim J. F. Soares

      Pages 137-157

   2. Electrodermal Habituation Patterns: Effect of Relative Refractoriness, Extrapolation of Stimulus Conditions, or Gestalt Perception?

      • Rüdiger Baltissen

      Pages 159-172

   3. Electrodermal Response Lability-Stability: Individual Difference Correlates

      • Andrew Crider

      Pages 173-186

6. Psychopathology

   1. Electrodermal Indices as Markers for the Development of Schizophrenia

      • Peter H. Venables

      Pages 187-205

   2. The Skin Conductance Orienting Response, Attention, and Schizophrenia

      • Anne M. Schell, Michael E. Dawson, Erin Hazlett, Diane L. Filion, Keith H. Nuechterlein

      Pages 207-221

   3. Electrodermal Activity and Antisocial Behavior: Empirical Findings and Theoretical Issues

      • Don C. Fowles

      Pages 223-237

   4. Electrodermal Nonresponding in First-Episode Psychosis as a Function of Stimulus Significance

      • William G. Iacono, John W. Ficken, Morton Beiser

      Pages 239-255

7. Electrodermal Activity and Hemispherical Asymetry

   1. The Laterality of Electrodermal Responses: A New Perspective on Individual Differences in Personality and Psychopathology

      • John Gruzelier

      Pages 257-270

   2. Brain Asymmetry and Autonomic Conditioning: Skin Conductance Responses

      • Kenneth Hugdahl, Bjørn Helge Johnsen

      Pages 271-287

   3. Electrodermal Amplitude Asymmetry and Orienting Response-Non-Response in Psychopathology

      • Pierre Flor-Henry

      Pages 289-296

Electrodennal activity refers to electrical changes across the skin in areas of the body that are psychologically responsive. The eccrine sweat glands are the primary detenninant of electrodennal activity, and these are psychologically active especially on the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet. As a matter of convenience, electrodennal activity is most often recorded from the palms. Over the years, the electrodennal response has been known as the psychogalvanic reflex, the galvanic skin response, the skin resistance response, the skin conductance response, and the skin potential response. The tenns psychogalvanic reflex and galvanic skin response have fallen into disuse among scientists, but are still to be found in psychology text books. of its early discovery, ease of measurement, and often easily observable Because response to experimental manipulations, the recording of electrodennal activity is one of the most frequently used methods in psychophysiology. Indeed, in the early years following the founding of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, electrodennal research so dominated the field that people worried that the society was simply an electrodennal society. Although other psychophysiological techniques have emerged as equally strong contributors to psychophysiology, electrodennal research continues to be important throughout the world. As a result of this massive research investment, there has been great progress in understanding electrodennal phenomena, as well as major advances in recording methods since the phenomenon was discovered.

• antisocial behavior
• brain
• physiology
• psychology
• psychopathology
• schizophrenia

• University of Lille-USTL, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France

  Jean-Claude Roy

• University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany

  Wolfram Boucsein

• University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA

  Don C. Fowles

• Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, University of London, London, UK

  John H. Gruzelier

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