HEP Extraction to Study Interoception in Juvenile Offenders

In Colombia, there are few scientific studies that address the problem of criminal behavior in young people, making it necessary to generate knowledge that supports the strengthening of programs and policies related to the resocialization of juvenile offenders. With the interaction between current knowledge, cognitive activities have been related to electrical potentials taken with electroencephalograms (EEG), which, recorded under stimuli associated with cognitive and emotion management tasks, are used to extract HEP (Heartbeat-Evoked Potentials). Recent studies try to propose these potentials as biological markers that can facilitate the emotional characterization of humans. This presents a challenge for extracting these HEPs and for defining features that can most adequately associate emotional behavior. This paper presents a way to extract the HEP potentials, for a population of young delinquents, using the most common time features in the literature and others little studied in the context of HEP such as power, RMS value and index of Kurtosis. For this, EEG records taken within the framework of a project under development with seventy-four (74) young delinquents from the Departamento del Atlántico were used. Initial findings indicate the feasibility of including additional features for the study of these potentials, revealing marked differences between the studied groups. The power of the signals exhibits a distinct contrast between the investigated groups. Particularly, the most substantial differentiation arises during the post-interoceptive period.