An attention-based approach for assessing the effectiveness of emotion-evoking in immersive environment

F Liu, Y Zhou, J Hu - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Visual stimuli within an immersive virtual environment impact human perception and
behavior in notably different ways compared to the real world. Previous studies have …

Heartfelt choices: The influence of cardiac phase on free‐choice actions

E Mussini, MG Perrucci, M Costantini… - Psychophysiology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The influence of cardiac phases on cognitive and sensorimotor functions is noteworthy.
Specifically, during systole, as opposed to diastole, there is an observed enhancement in …

[HTML][HTML] Neuroticism mediates the association between autistic traits and choice reaction time among young adults

K De Jesus Cintron, X Yang - Behavioral Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that influences an
individual's cognitive functions and social interaction. While most studies have focused on …

Triggered by your heart: Effects of cardioafferent traffic and stress on automatic responses in a Simon task

L von Haugwitz, E Wascher, MF Larra - Psychophysiology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Variations in cardioafferent traffic are relayed to the brain via arterial baroreceptors and have
been shown to modulate perceptual processing. However, less is known about the cognitive …

[HTML][HTML] Sex Differences in the Association Between Cardiac Vagal Control and the Effects of Baroreflex Afferents on Behavior

X Yang, J Chaney, AS David, F Fang - Hearts, 2024 - mdpi.com
Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality and disability
worldwide. While sex differences in CVD have been well documented, the physiological …

Withstand Control: Standing posture may differentially affect space-based and feature-based cognitive control through enhanced physiological arousal

N Busch, A Zinchenko, M Halle, T Geyer - 2024 - authorea.com
Can simply standing up sharpen our minds? Whereas initial works proposed that standing
posture reduces distractor interference in the Stroop task, subsequent replication attempts …

Mental workload modulates the effects of baroreceptor afferents on sensorimotor processing

X Yang, K Herberlein, A Reid… - Journal of Clinical & …, 2024 - digitalcommons.odu.edu
The heart–brain interaction is the main mechanism for maintaining normative physiological
processes, and its dysregulation underlies the somatic symptoms of various mental …