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Skin temperature biofeedback for multiple sessions with monetary incentives.

H R Barrett1, T M Streets, J H Tucker

  • 1Department of Psychology, Tennessee State University, Nashville 37203.

Perceptual and Motor Skills
|August 1, 1987
PubMed
Summary

This study found no significant difference in biofeedback learning for peripheral skin temperature control between positive and positive/negative monetary incentives. Both groups showed temperature decline, indicating self-control and feedback effectiveness.

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Area of Science:

  • Behavioral Psychology
  • Psychophysiology
  • Biofeedback Research

Background:

  • Biofeedback training is used to learn voluntary control over physiological responses.
  • Monetary incentives are explored as motivators in biofeedback learning.
  • Peripheral skin temperature is a common physiological measure in biofeedback studies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare the effectiveness of positive versus positive/negative monetary incentives in learning biofeedback-assisted control of peripheral skin temperature.
  • To analyze self-control and feedback control effects during the training sessions.

Main Methods:

  • Two groups (n=10 each) received biofeedback training for peripheral skin temperature control.
  • Six sessions included pre/post voluntary control and four training sessions with visual feedback and monetary incentives.

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  • Sessions involved adaptation, baseline, feedback/control, and final baseline periods.

    • Main Results:

    • No significant difference in peripheral skin temperature control was found between the positive and positive/negative incentive groups.
    • An overall decline in skin temperature was observed within sessions across both groups.
    • Evidence of self-control and feedback control was demonstrated by changes in the rate of temperature decline over sessions.

    Conclusions:

    • Response control in biofeedback should be defined relative to appropriate comparison conditions, not solely by temperature increase.
    • Monetary incentives did not differentially impact learning outcomes for skin temperature control.
    • Further research is recommended to explore alternative incentive contingencies and their motivational effects.