ArticleFrontiers in physiology2020
Heart Rate Variability Synchronizes When Non-experts Vocalize Together.
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- Intonation and timing in singing early music is unrelated to respiration synchronization.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Brain lipid metabolism and transport: implications for neurodegeneration and therapeutic strategies: a comprehensive review.Metabolic brain disease · 2026Review
- Mapping the Neurophysiological Link Between Voice and Autonomic Function: A Scoping Review.Biology · 2025Review
- The relationship of early life adversity and physiological synchrony within the therapeutic triad in horse-assisted therapy.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2025Article
- Effects of singing on vascular health in older adults with coronary artery disease: a randomized, crossover trial.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2025Article
- How our hearts beat together: a study on physiological synchronization based on a self-paced joint motor task.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Physiological synchrony and shared flow state in Javanese gamelan: positively associated while improvising, but not for traditional performance.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Interpersonal synchrony when singing in a choir.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Discrimination of Patients with Varying Degrees of Coronary Artery Stenosis by ECG and PCG Signals Based on Entropy.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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Abstract
Singing and chanting are ubiquitous across World cultures. It has been theorized that such practices are an adaptive advantage for humans because they facilitate bonding and cohesion between group members. Investigations into the effects of singing together have so far focused on the physiological effects, such as the synchronization of heart rate variability (HRV), of experienced choir singers. Here, we study whether HRV synchronizes for pairs of non-experts in different vocalizing conditions. Using time-frequency coherence (TFC) analysis, we find that HRV becomes more coupled when people make long (> 10 s) sounds synchronously compared to short sounds (< 1 s) and baseline measurements (
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