Why the study?
Does cardiac vagal tone predict attentional engagement to and disengagement from fearful faces?
Population
Participants in two experiments examining individual differences in flexible emotional attention
Comparison
Measurement of cardiac vagal tone vs Higher versus lower heart rate variability
Design
Other
Authors
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Supports lower HRV association with threat attention biases; leaves open whether vagal modulation affects affective disorders.
Does cardiac vagal tone predict attentional engagement to and disengagement from fearful faces?
Cardiac vagal tone is associated with more adaptive top-down and bottom-up modulation of emotional attention, with potential implications for affective disorders.
Park et al. (2013) studied this question.
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