ReviewFrontiers in psychology2014
From the heart to the mind: cardiac vagal tone modulates top-down and bottom-up visual perception and attention to emotional stimuli.
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- Computational analysis of heart rate variability in ASD and ADHD: a systematic review.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2026Pooled it
- Heart rate variability alterations in takotsubo syndrome and related association with psychological factors: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2023Pooled it
- Early childhood stress responses to psychosocial stressors: The state of the science.Developmental psychobiology · 2022Pooled it
- Can Reactivity of Heart Rate Variability Be a Potential Biomarker and Monitoring Tool to Promote Healthy Aging? A Systematic Review With Meta-Analyses.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Associations Between Interoception, Vagal Tone, and Emotional Regulation: Potential Applications for Mental Health, Wellbeing, Psychological Flexibility, and Chronic Conditions.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Pooled it
- Effects of Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback Training on Anxiety Reduction and Brain Activity: a Randomized Active-Controlled Study Using EEG.Applied psychophysiology and biofeedback · 2024Trial
- Temporal profile of intranasal oxytocin in the human autonomic nervous system at rest: An electrocardiography and pupillometry study.Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) · 2023Trial
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- Cognitive effects and autonomic responses to transcranial pulsed current stimulation.Experimental brain research · 2015Trial
- Heart rate variability, skin conductance, and gaze behavior during rest and during live eye contact in very prematurely born school-aged children.Pediatric research · 2026Article
- Contextual fear conditioning leads to hypo-innervation of the left ventricular myocardium in female but not male C57BL/6J mice.IBRO neuroscience reports · 2026Article
- Leading With HEART©: Equine-Assisted Leadership Training Fosters Emotional Intelligence, Resilience, and Identity Formation in First-Year Osteopathic Medical Students.Medical science educator · 2026Article
- Association of Novel Oral Appliance Use With Heart Rate Variability in Adolescent Athletes.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2026Article
- Influence of resilience on autonomic nervous system habituation to repeated stress exposure: Insights from heart rate variability and heart rate response.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2026Article
- A Familiar Working Environment Influences Surgeon's Stress in the Operating Room: A Multi-Specialty Prospective Cohort Study.Annals of surgery · 2026Article
- Daily Paced Breathing Sessions Induce Left Orbitofrontal Volume Changes Linked to Cognitive Outcomes.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Neural Mechanisms of Social Homeostasis: Dynamic Range Plasticity.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Review
- One-Week Home-Based HRV Biofeedback with Supervised Sessions Versus Passive Relaxation: Effects on Autonomic, Sensorimotor Functions and Kata Performance in Eastern Martial Arts Athletes.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The body and the brain keep the score: a data-driven conceptual model linking trauma and postural tachycardia syndrome.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Review
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Abstract
The neurovisceral integration model (Thayer and Lane, 2000) posits that cardiac vagal tone, indexed by heart rate variability (HRV), can indicate the functional integrity of the neural networks implicated in emotion-cognition interactions. Our recent findings begin to disentangle how HRV is associated with both top-down and bottom-up cognitive processing of emotional stimuli. Higher resting HRV is associated with more adaptive and functional top-down and bottom-up cognitive modulation of emotional stimuli, which may facilitate effective emotion regulation. Conversely, lower resting HRV is associated with hyper-vigilant and maladaptive cognitive responses to emotional stimuli, which may impede emotion regulation. In the present paper, we recapitulate the neurovisceral integration model and review recent findings that shed light on the relationship between HRV and top-down and bottom-up visual perception and attention to emotional stimuli, which may play an important role in emotion regulation. Further implications of HRV on individual well-being and mental health are discussed.
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