Trial reportScientific reports2018
Response inhibition on the stop signal task improves during cardiac contraction.
Trial report in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.
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- Reduced sensory attenuation is related to aberrant interoceptive influences on intentional binding in schizophrenia.PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2025Article
- Body as First Teacher: The Role of Rhythmic Visceral Dynamics in Early Cognitive Development.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Article
- Arousal may not be anything to get excited about.Emotion review : journal of the International Society for Research on Emotion · 2025Article
- Heartfelt choices: The influence of cardiac phase on free-choice actions.Psychophysiology · 2024Article
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- The value of error-correcting responses for cognitive assessment in games.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Timing along the cardiac cycle modulates neural signals of reward-based learning.Nature communications · 2024Article
- A framework for quantifying the coupling between brain connectivity and heartbeat dynamics: Insights into the disrupted network physiology in Parkinson's disease.Human brain mapping · 2024Article
- When the heart inhibits the brain: Cardiac phases modulate short-interval intracortical inhibition.iScience · 2024Article
- Altered sense of agency in schizophrenia: the aberrant effect of cardiac interoceptive signals.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Impaired cardiac modulation in patients with functional seizures: Results from a face intensity judgment task.Epilepsia · 2023Article
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Abstract
Motor actions can be facilitated or hindered by psychophysiological states of readiness, to guide rapid adaptive action. Cardiovascular arousal is communicated by cardiac signals conveying the timing and strength of individual heartbeats. Here, we tested how these interoceptive signals facilitate control of motor impulsivity. Participants performed a stop signal task, in which stop cues were delivered at different time points within the cardiac cycle: at systole when the heart contracts (T-wave peak, approximately 300 ms following the R-wave), or at diastole between heartbeats (R-wave peak). Response inhibition was better at systole, indexed by a shorter stop signal reaction time (SSRT), and longer stop signal delay (SSD). Furthermore, parasympathetic control of cardiovascular tone, and subjective sensitivity to interoceptive states, predicted response inhibition efficiency, although these cardiovascular and interoceptive correlations did not survive correction for multiple comparisons. This suggests that response inhibition capacity is influenced by interoceptive physiological cues, such that people are more likely to express impulsive actions during putative states of lower cardiovascular arousal, when frequency and strength of cardiac afferent signalling is reduced.
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