Population
40 healthy subjects aged 20-25 years, with similar educational and cultural backgrounds, free from history…
Comparison
Mental arithmetic task with audio distraction to… vs Normal/relaxed state (initial relaxation period).
Design
Other
Follow-up
66 minutes (duration of the task protocol)
Authors
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May support lab-based acute stress detection via HRV; leaves open clinical validation and real-world utility.
Higher-order statistical features of heart rate variability can accurately classify acute mental stress induced by arithmetic tasks.
Murugappan et al. (2013) studied this question.
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