The Tell-Tale Heart: Heart rate fluctuations index objective and subjective events during a game of chess

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue SEPTEMBER, 2012, Pages

  Leone, María Juliana ^a   Petroni, Agustín ^a   Fernandez Slezak, Diego F ^a   Sigman, Mariano ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Calculation; Chess; Cognitive processes; Decision making; heart rate; Planning; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HEART INDEX; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESPONSE TIME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRATEGIC PLANNING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

EID: 84933677520     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00273     Document Type: Article

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