Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control

The paper introduces a Python pipeline to extract coordination-dynamics invariants from simultaneous VENG and ECG data in neonatal piglets, revealing state-switching patterns and coupling between phase coherence and HRV scaling exponents during endotoxaemia.

This study analyzes HRV spectral features in Williams syndrome during sleep, finding altered fractal properties and associations with sleep structure indicators.

This study shows that slow breathing increases risky decisions by enhancing reward sensitivity and cardiac parasympathetic activity through neuro-cardiac pathways.

The paper reanalyzes a dataset to investigate heart-brain interactions during a visual feature integration task, finding that heart evoked oscillations correlate with successful perceptual integration.

This study uses a Kalman filter to estimate cardiac prediction errors from resting-state EEG and ECG data and finds they are associated with heartbeat-evoked potential (HEP) amplitude.

This paper introduces opMCI to measure physiological synchrony in parent-infant dyads and shows it increases after a shared reading intervention in preterm infants.

This study shows that interpersonal breathing synchronization during social interaction leads to reduced intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling, suggesting a trade-off between self-other and self coupling.

This study identifies beta-band power suppression as a neural signature of interoceptive attention, showing it correlates with interoceptive accuracy during heartbeat processing.

This study investigates brain-heart-gut electrophysiological interactions in humans, revealing a coordinated multi-directional network at infra-slow timescales.

The paper introduces HRPI, a threshold-free metric for sustained heart rate elevation, and shows it captures more structure than mean HR and declines with age.

This study explores if baseline heart rate variability (HRV) predicts susceptibility to ASMR and music-induced frisson in a small sample.

This paper reviews 132 HER studies using M/EEG, identifies methodological inconsistencies, and provides a checklist and dataset to improve standardization and reproducibility.

The paper identifies autonomic phenotypes in older adults from a high-southern-latitude population using integrated HRV and physiological data, revealing a multidimensional structure of autonomic heterogeneity.

This study shows that cardiac signals influence activity in the posterior insular cortex and emotional processing, with neurons tuned to heartbeats during specific phases of the cardiac cycle.

This study identifies a reproducible, temporally structured multimodal sympathetic nervous system startle response in humans, with potential diagnostic utility.

The paper develops the React & Rebound model to extract emotion regulation parameters from wearable HRV data and validates them against anxiety symptoms.

The paper introduces a method to separate respiratory and non-respiratory cardiac decelerations during a visual perception task and finds they have opposing effects on perceptual performance.

This study uses TREV to measure cardiac contractility during threat anticipation and finds it correlates with neural activity and emotional responses better than skin conductance responses.

This study investigates how PIEZO 1 channels in cardiac sensory neurons modulate anxiety by affecting interoception and predictive coding.

This study shows that cardiorespiratory coupling during memory encoding predicts trial-level accuracy but not retention, highlighting its role in cognitive performance.

This study identifies RVLMC1 neurons' role in stabilizing blood pressure during behavioral state transitions in rats, showing they buffer BP fluctuations without affecting mean BP.

The paper examines physiological and neural activity during naturalistic learning situations using EEG and ECG, showing systematic variations in heart rate, heart rate variability, and brain activity across learning phases.

The paper examines cardio-respiratory interactions in interoceptive perception by analyzing heartbeat-modulated cortical oscillations during cardiac and exteroceptive tasks.

This study develops a method to extract cardiac signals from MEG data, showing strong alignment with ECG HRV, suggesting potential for improving neuroimaging and cardiovascular research.

The paper investigates brain regions involved in autonomic activity during emotion regulation and rest, finding distinct afferent and efferent systems and age-related differences in their coordination.

The paper examines age-related changes in how cardiac signals influence neural oscillations and time perception in the brain.

This paper reviews HEP processing methods in EEG and MEG studies, identifies inconsistencies, and recommends standardized approaches for reliable HEP extraction.

This study shows that Dance Movement Therapy improves vagally-mediated heart rate variability in older adults, suggesting benefits for physical and mental health through enhanced social interaction and well-being.

This study identifies vagal cardiac mechanoreceptors as critical for compensating blood loss and posture changes by regulating blood pressure.