Electrodermal Activity

Wolfram Boucsein is professor of physiological psychology at the University of Wuppertal, Germany. He received his training both in psychology and physiology and obtained his Ph. D. in psychology at the University of Giessen, Germany in 1971. Afterwards, he held various positions as research assistant, senior lecturer and associate professor, before he was appointed as full professor at the Wuppertal University in 1982. He has co-edited several books and published more then 150 papers in psychophysiology, clinical psychology, applied psychology and in fields overlapping with medicine. His current research interests are in using central and autonomic nervous system recordings in the study of emotions and information processing, in the modeling of neurophysiological systems for arousal and emotion, and in applying psychophysiological methods to adaptive automation and product testing.