Cardiac vagal tone is correlated with selective attention to neutral distractors under load

Psychophysiology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 398-406

  Park, Gewnhi ^a   Vasey, Michael W ^b   Van Bavel, Jay J ^c   Thayer, Julian F ^b  

^a AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Heart rate variability; Selective inhibition; Vagal tone

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874703458     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12029     Document Type: Article

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