ReviewFrontiers in neuroscience2021
Keeping the Breath in Mind: Respiration, Neural Oscillations, and the Free Energy Principle.
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- Neurological Evidence of Diverse Self-Help Breathing Training With Virtual Reality and Biofeedback Assistance: Extensive Exploration Study of Electroencephalography Markers.JMIR formative research · 2024Trial
- No evidence for modulation of the readiness potential by respiratory phase during natural breathing.PLoS biology · 2026Article
- Cardiac Autonomic Dynamics Differentially Shape Cognitive and Affective Theory of Mind: Evidence From Respiratory Manipulation.Psychophysiology · 2026Article
- Human forebrain neural synchronization and entrainment to breathing during wakefulness, sleep, and external mechanical ventilation.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Temporal-oscillatory entrainment: a multi-timescale framework for rhythmic coordination from neural to social frequencies.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- From hidden springs to endless oceans: exploring the complementary roles of the amygdala and hippocampus in phenomenal experience.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2026Article
- Global coordination of brain activity by the breathing cycle.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2025Review
- The functional overlap between respiration and global signal and its behavioral relevance.Communications biology · 2025Article
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- Paced Breathing Associated With Pupil Diameter Oscillations at the Same Rate and Reduced Lapses in Attention.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
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- Olfactory bulb stimulation mitigates Alzheimer's-like disease progression.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2024Article
- Attention to cardiac sensations enhances the heartbeat-evoked potential during exhalation.iScience · 2024Article
- Prospects of cognitive-motor entrainment: an interdisciplinary review.Frontiers in cognition · 2024Review
- Dyadic inter-brain EEG coherence induced by interoceptive hyperscanning.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Respiration-entrained brain oscillations in healthy fMRI participants with high anxiety.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Effects of verbal tasks with varying difficulty on real-time respiratory airflow during speech generation in healthy young adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Temporal variations in the pattern of breathing: techniques, sources, and applications to translational sciences.The journal of physiological sciences : JPS · 2022Review
- Breathing Rhythm and Pattern and Their Influence on Emotion.Annual review of neuroscience · 2022Review
- Study of immediate neurological and autonomic changes duringJournal of family medicine and primary care · 2022Article
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Abstract
Scientific interest in the brain and body interactions has been surging in recent years. One fundamental yet underexplored aspect of brain and body interactions is the link between the respiratory and the nervous systems. In this article, we give an overview of the emerging literature on how respiration modulates neural, cognitive and emotional processes. Moreover, we present a perspective linking respiration to the free-energy principle. We frame volitional modulation of the breath as an active inference mechanism in which sensory evidence is recontextualized to alter interoceptive models. We further propose that respiration-entrained gamma oscillations may reflect the propagation of prediction errors from the sensory level up to cortical regions in order to alter higher level predictions. Accordingly, controlled breathing emerges as an easily accessible tool for emotional, cognitive, and physiological regulation.
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