galvanic skin response

Questions about galvanic skin response

What does galvanic skin response mean?

galvanic skin response means "a change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety; can be measured either by recording the electrical resistance of the skin or by recording weak currents generated by the body".

What is another word for galvanic skin response?

Close synonyms include GSR, psychogalvanic response, electrodermal response, electrical skin response, Fere phenomenon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is galvanic skin response a common word?

galvanic skin response is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.