Objective: Unilateral nostril breathing (UNB) is a yogic pranayama technique that has been
shown to improve verbal and spatial cognition in neurologically intact individuals. Early …

Background and purpose: Unilateral forced nostril breathing (UFNB), a yogic pranayama
technique, improves verbal and spatial cognition in healthy adults. The use of UFNB as an …

The immediate effect of two yoga breathing techniques was assessed on verbal and spatial
memory tasks, considered hemisphere-specific. Forty-five participants (24 males; age range …

Anulom-vilom Pranayama/alternate nostril breathing (ANB)/Nadi-suddhi pranayama is one
of the common yogic breathing techniques and involves breathing through one nostril at a …

This study describes the effects of 30 minutes of unilateral forced nostril breathing on
cognitive performance in 51 right-handed undergraduate psychology students (25 males …

Background Previously, forced unilateral nostril breathing was associated with ipsilateral, or
contralateral cerebral hemisphere changes, or no change. Hence it was inconclusive. The …

Uninostril breathing facilitates the performance on spatial and verbal cognitive tasks, said to
be right and left brain functions, respectively. Since hemispheric memory functions are also …

This study assessed the effect of alternate nostril yoga breathing (nadisuddhi pranayama)
on P300 auditory evoked potentials compared to a session of breath awareness of equal …

The effects of three yoga breathing practices were evaluated on performance on a letter-
cancellation task which is a left-hemisphere dominant task. The three yoga breathing …

Background: In earlier studies uninostril yoga breathing was shown to influence the activity
of the cerebral hemispheres differently, based on (i) auditory evoked potentials recorded …