I heard this NPR story on the radio. Wiring musicians up to measure their
physical response to music -- yes, it is an old idea indeed. One of the books
about Herbert von Karajan (I can't remember which one) describes how he had
himself wired and then conducted a rehearsal or whatever with his blood pressure,
temperature, et cetera being measured and recorded. That may have been twenty
or twenty-five years ago, however. History much too ancient for the producers
of this story to have known about.