The physiological and neural signs were exactly right.
This morning we spent some time discussing what physiological signs accompany an altered state of consciousness.
For instance, after being exposed to a stressful situation (cold pressor test), human participants showed greater physiological signs of well-being than those in the control condition.
This could be used to detect a user's emotional state by monitoring and analysing their physiological signs.
The device can monitoring a range of physiological signs including heart rate, body position, movement, respiration, skin and core body temperature.
But he could ignore it only so long; it was a physiological sign of danger.
Cooperative animals fail to show behavioural and physiological signs of distress.
Also evident were physiological signs the men had breathed air of a high oxygen constant and spent considerable time in a weightless environment.
In many women, alcohol increases sexual arousal and desire, although it does lower the physiological signs of arousal.
By monitoring a few physiological signs, these machines know if you're being deceptive, even if you don't have a "tell."