Assessment of Heart Rate and Electrodermal Activity During Sustained Attention to Response Tests

Heart rate variation and electrodermal activity are both affected by the autonomic nervous system's response to psychological and emotional activity. The objective of this work is to use measures of these indices of autonomic function to assess the emotional responses of subjects undergoing a Sustained Attention to Response Test (SART), Errors of commission (failure to withhold responding to the no-go target), errors of omission (failure to …