From the Heart to the Mind: Cardiac Vagal Tone Modulates Top-down and Bottom-up Visual Perception and Attention to Emotional Stimuli

The neurovisceral integration model (Thayer & Lane, 2000) posits that cardiac vagal tone, indexed by heart rate variability (HRV), can indicate the functional integrity of the neural networks implicated in emotion-cognition interactions. Our recent findings begin to disentangle how HRV is associ...

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Main Authors: Gewnhi ePark, Julian F. Thayer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00278/full