McGarry Shannon P D, Neilson Brittany N, Brown Noelle L, Strong Kaylin D, Greenlee Eric T, Klein Martina I, Coyne Joseph T
Information Technology Division, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States.
Operational Psychology Department, Naval Aerospace Medical Institute, Pensacola, FL, United States.
Front Neuroergon. 2023 Dec 11;4:1244658. doi: 10.3389/fnrgo.2023.1244658. eCollection 2023.
Research over the last couple of decades has demonstrated a relationship between psychophysiological measures, specifically cardiac functions, and cognitive performance. Regulation of the cardiac system under parasympathetic control is commonly referred to as cardiac vagal tone and is associated with the regulation of cognitive and socioemotional states. The goal of the current study was to capture the dynamic relationship between cardiac vagal tone and performance in a vigilance task.
METHOD/RESULTS: We implemented a longitudinal growth curve modeling approach which unveiled a relationship between cardiac vagal tone and vigilance that was non-monotonic and dependent upon each person.
The findings suggest that cardiac vagal tone may be a process-based physiological measure that further explains how the vigilance decrement manifests over time and differs across individuals. This contributes to our understanding of vigilance by modeling individual differences in cardiac vagal tone changes that occur over the course of the vigilance task.
过去几十年的研究表明,心理生理测量指标,特别是心脏功能,与认知表现之间存在关联。在副交感神经控制下的心脏系统调节通常被称为心脏迷走神经张力,它与认知和社会情绪状态的调节有关。本研究的目的是捕捉心脏迷走神经张力与警觉任务表现之间的动态关系。
方法/结果:我们采用了纵向生长曲线建模方法,该方法揭示了心脏迷走神经张力与警觉之间的关系是非单调的且因人而异。
研究结果表明,心脏迷走神经张力可能是一种基于过程的生理测量指标,它进一步解释了警觉性下降如何随时间显现以及个体之间的差异。这通过对警觉任务过程中发生的心脏迷走神经张力变化的个体差异进行建模,有助于我们对警觉性的理解。