ArticleCognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience2018
Variable heart rate and a flexible mind: Higher resting-state heart rate variability predicts better task-switching.
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- Effectiveness of emotion regulation strategies measured by self-report and EMG as a result of strategy used, negative emotion strength and participants' baseline HRV.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Mapping the mental space of emotional concepts through kinematic measures of decision uncertainty.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Evaluating heart rate variability with 10 second multichannel electrocardiograms in a large population-based sample.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2023Article
- Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation in the treatment of disorders of consciousness: mechanisms and applications.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
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- Examining the Autonomic Nervous System in the Relationship among Heart Rate Variability, Stress Coping, and Cognitive Ability in Individuals with Psychiatric Disorders.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- The relationship between neurocognitive performance and HRV parameters in nurses and non-healthcare participants.Brain and behavior · 2022Article
- Neuroinflammation as an etiological trigger for depression comorbid with inflammatory bowel disease.Journal of neuroinflammation · 2022Review
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- Heart Rate Variability in Psychology: A Review of HRV Indices and an Analysis Tutorial.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Heart Rate Variability and Decision-Making: Autonomic Responses in Making Decisions.Brain sciences · 2021Article
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- Retraction · 2022-10-31Concerns/Issues about Data · Investigation by Company/Institution · Misconduct - Official Investigation(s) and/or Finding(s) · Misconduct by Author · Unreliable Results and/or Conclusions · · Lorenza Colzato has institutional finding of misconduct;
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Abstract
The neurovisceral integration model proposes that heart rate variability (HRV) is linked to prefrontal cortex activity via the vagus nerve, which connects the heart and the brain. HRV, an index of cardiac vagal tone, has been found to predict performance on several cognitive control tasks that rely on the prefrontal cortex. However, the link between HRV and the core cognitive control function "shifting" between tasks and mental sets is under-investigated. Therefore, the present study tested the neurovisceral integration model by examining, in 90 participants, the relationship between vagally mediated resting-state HRV and performance in a task-switching paradigm that provides a relatively process-pure measure of cognitive flexibility. As predicted, participants with higher resting-state HRV (indexed both by time domain and frequency domain measures) showed smaller switch costs (i.e., greater flexibility) than individuals with lower resting-state HRV. Our findings support the neurovisceral integration model and indicate that higher levels of vagally mediated resting-state HRV promote cognitive flexibility.
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