ArticleBiological psychology2019
Resting heart rate variability is negatively associated with mirror neuron and limbic response to emotional faces.
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- Facial emotion processing in patients with borderline personality disorder as compared with healthy controls: an fMRI and ECG study.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2024Article
- Heart rate variability moderates the effects of COVID-19-related stress and family adversity on emotional problems in adolescents: Testing models of differential susceptibility and diathesis stress.Development and psychopathology · 2022Article
- Compassion Is Not a Benzo: Distinctive Associations of Heart Rate Variability With Its Empathic and Action Components.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
- Heart Rate Variability as an Index of Differential Brain Dynamics at Rest and After Acute Stress Induction.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2020Article
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Abstract
Whether neurovisceral integration, reflected by resting high-frequency heart rate variability (HRV), constrains or facilitates neural reactivity to other people's emotions is unclear. We assessed the relation between resting HRV and neural activation when observing and imitating emotional faces. We focused on brain regions implicated in sensorimotor resonance, salience detection and arousal. We used electrocardiogram data to compute resting HRV. Resting HRV measures were negatively correlated with activation in a portion of the inferior frontal gyrus showing mirror neuron properties, the insula and the amygdala in response to observation, but not imitation, of emotional faces. Thus, resting HRV appears to be linked to sensitivity to others' emotional cues, both in terms of the tendency to map others' emotional facial expressions onto one's own motor system and to rapidly detect and mark others' emotions as salient events. Resting HRV may reflect, in part, a threshold for increased processing of others' emotional cues.
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