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Gaetano Valenza1, Antonio Lanatá, Enzo Pasquale Scilingo

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This study enhances emotion recognition by integrating cardiorespiratory (CR) coupling data. Analyzing CR synchrograms improved affective state identification accuracy to over 90% in a novel system.

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Area of Science:

  • Physiology
  • Psychology
  • Computer Science

Background:

  • Emotion recognition systems often rely on limited physiological signals.
  • Cardiorespiratory (CR) coupling, reflecting autonomic nervous system activity, offers a richer data source.
  • The circumplex model of affect (CMA) provides a framework for categorizing emotional states based on valence and arousal.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a novel emotion recognition system incorporating CR coupling information.
  • To improve the accuracy of identifying affective states within the CMA framework.
  • To explore the theoretical underpinnings of CR coupling during emotional arousal.

Main Methods:

  • Collected physiological data (heart rate, respiration, electrodermal response) from 35 healthy subjects.
  • Utilized CR synchrogram analysis to quantify cardiorespiratory coupling.
  • Developed a system to identify 25 distinct affective states based on five levels of arousal and valence.
  • Employed a quadratic discriminant classifier to assess recognition accuracy.

Main Results:

  • The novel system achieved over 90% classification accuracy per class.
  • Integrating bivariate CR measures significantly outperformed systems using only monovariate measures.
  • Demonstrated that CR coupling reveals sympathetic activations more effectively.

Conclusions:

  • Cardiorespiratory coupling is a crucial indicator for enhancing emotion recognition accuracy.
  • The proposed methodology offers a robust approach to identifying complex affective states.
  • A theoretical nonlinear model of CR coupling during sympathetic activity provides a generalizable tool for other emotion recognition systems.