galvanic skin response
noun
: a change in the electrical resistance of the skin that is a physiochemical response to emotional arousal which increases sympathetic nervous system activity
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So did a device that analyzed galvanic skin response—how much a subject was sweating.
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The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
These include galvanic skin response, eye tracking, respiration, EEG brain wave measurement and others.
—Roger Dooley, Forbes, 7 Nov. 2021
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The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
These include galvanic skin response, eye tracking, respiration, EEG brain wave measurement and others.
—Roger Dooley, Forbes, 7 Nov. 2021
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