Key result
Heart rate variability is an effective tool for the measurement and regulation of emotional response, with broad applications in emotion recognition and the evaluation of emotional disorders.
Why the study?
Heart rate variability analysis serves as a non-invasive tool to evaluate cardiac autonomic function and plays an important role in emotional study and detection.
This review highlights the utility of heart rate variability as a non-invasive tool for evaluating cardiac autonomic function, recognizing emotions, and managing emotional disorders.
Supports HRV exploration in emotion research; leaves open clinical adoption pending prospective validation.
BACKGROUND: Emotion is composed of cognitive processing, physiological response and behavioral reaction. Heart rate variability (HRV) refers to the fluctuations between consecutive heartbeat cycles, and is considered as a non-invasive method for evaluating cardiac autonomic function. HRV analysis plays an important role in emotional study and detection. OBJECTIVE: In this paper, the physiological foundation of HRV is briefly described, and then the relevant literature relating to HRV-based emotion studies for the performance of HRV in different emotions, emotion recognition, the evaluation of emotional disorders, HRV biofeedback, as well as HRV-based emotion analysis and management enhanced by wearable devices, are reviewed. SIGNIFICANCE: It is suggested that HRV is an effective tool for the measurement and regulation of emotional response, with a broad application prospect.
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Zhu et al. (2019) conducted a review in Emotion and disorders of emotion. Heart rate variability (HRV) monitoring was evaluated. Heart rate variability is an effective tool for the measurement and regulation of emotional response, with broad applications in emotion recognition and the evaluation of emotional disorders.
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