Does heart rate variability predict better executive functioning? A systematic review and meta-analysis

2022/08/06 by Valentin Magnon, Guillaume T. Vallet, Amanda Benson +7 · 88 citations
Medicine · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Association (psychology) #Blood pressure #Cardiovascular Syncope and Autonomic Disorders #Clinical psychology #Cognition #Cognitive flexibility #Cognitive psychology #Cognitive skill #Developmental psychology #EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces #Executive functions #Flexibility (engineering) #Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control #Heart rate #Heart rate variability #Internal medicine #Medicine #Meta-analysis #Meta-regression #Neuroscience #Psychology #Psychotherapist #Working memory

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2022.07.008

published in Cortex 155, 218-236 (Elsevier BV)

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