Individual differences in heart rate variability predict the degree of slowing during response inhibition and initiation in the presence of emotional stimuli

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue OCT, 2011, Pages

  Krypotos, Angelos Miltiadis ^a   Jahfari, Sara ^a   van Ast, Vanessa A ^a   Kindt, Merel ^a   Forstmann, Birte U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Emotion regulation; Heart rate variability; Individual differences; Response inhibition; Stop signal task

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862133348     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00278     Document Type: Article

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