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ArticlePLOS mental health2025

Cognitive arousal-based measures quantify insights from self-ratings in response to sensory stimuli.

Suzanne Oliver, Jinhan Zhang, Vidya Raju, James W Murrough, Rose T Faghih

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Article in PLOS mental health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Suzanne OliverDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, New York University (NYU) Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5597-4855
Jinhan ZhangDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New York University Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America.
Vidya RajuDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, New York University Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9688-9312
James W MurroughDepartment of Psychiatry, Depression and Anxiety Center for Discovery and Treatment, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6286-1242
Rose T FaghihDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, New York University Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5117-2628

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Abstract

Reliable quantification of patients' cognitive arousal is a challenging problem and a pertinent clinical need in various mental health applications. Recently, skin conductance-based cognitive state estimation has shown promise in inferring the cognitive arousal of individuals caused by autonomic nervous system (ANS) activation. Here, we use a physiological model of ANS-stimulated skin conductance modulations and Bayesian filtering to analyze changes in cognitive arousal induced by auditory, visual, and haptic stimuli. Our findings indicate that cognitive arousal-based measures are in better agreement with self-ratings-based metrics than inferred autonomic nervous system activation events in response to sensory stimuli. These insights on cognitive arousal increase our understanding of psychophysiology and may help diagnose, track, and treat symptoms of mental health disorders in the future by providing clinicians with a framework to estimate and modulate arousal levels in an interactive sensory stimulation environment.

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PMCPMC12798639

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