Heart Rate Variability and Cognitive Function: A Systematic Review.

What it found

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Who cites it

272 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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7. Predictor role of heart rate variability in subarachnoid hemorrhage: A systematic review.Journal of clinical monitoring and computing · 2024
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8. Do Mental Health Changes in Nature Co-occur with Changes in Heartrate Variability and Executive Functioning? A Systematic Review.Current environmental health reports · 2023
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15. Practice improves older adults' attentional control and prospective memory more than HD-tDCS: a randomized controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2024
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16. Short-Term Effects of Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback on Working Memory.Applied psychophysiology and biofeedback · 2024
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17. Impact of repeated morning bright white light exposures on attention in a simulated office environment.Scientific reports · 2023
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18. Toward a biologically grounded understanding of autonomic function in developmental science.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2026
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19. Prefrontal hemodynamic alterations during resting state and stroop interference in cognitively healthy older adults with high plasma pTau-217 levels.Neuroimage. Reports · 2026
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20. Heart rate variability and physician performance during airway management simulations: an exploratory pilot study.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2026
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Authors and funding

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Abstract

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