Why the study?
Is executive and motivational control associated with autonomic heart-rate regulation in children?
Population
42 children (mean age 10.6 years) from mainstream public (N = 22) and therapeutic schools (N = 20)
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Hypothesis-generating for domain-specific autonomic HRV correlates in children; does not support causal inference or practice change.
Is executive and motivational control associated with autonomic heart-rate regulation in children?
Executive and motivational control in children are distinctly associated with vagal and sympathetic modulation of heart rate variability, respectively.
Mezzacappa et al. (1998) studied this question.
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