Cardiac cycle and respiration phase affect responses to the conditioned stimulus in young adults trained in trace eyeblink conditioning
Tomi Waselius, Weiyong Xu, Julia I. Sparre, Markku Penttonen, Miriam S. Nokia
Abstract
We report, for the first time, that the rhythms of breathing and the beating of the heart have a phase combination that is indicative of a neural state beneficial for cognition. This suggests that bodily rhythms not only modulate cognition but that this phenomenon can also be noninvasively harnessed to improve learning in humans.
Topics & Concepts
Eyeblink conditioningNeuroscienceStimulus (psychology)PsychologyRhythmConditioningClassical conditioningCognitionAffect (linguistics)Cognitive psychologyCommunicationMedicineInternal medicineStatisticsMathematicsMemory and Neural MechanismsSleep and Wakefulness ResearchNeuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research