Heart rate variability and cardiac vagal tone in psychophysiological research - Recommendations for experiment planning, data analysis, and data reporting

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 8, Issue FEB, 2017, Pages

  Laborde, Sylvain ^a,b   Mosley, Emma ^c,d   Thayer, Julian F ^e  

^a GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b NORMANDIE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c SOUTHAMPTON SOLENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac vagal control; Heart rate variability; Parasympathetic activity; Parasympathetic nervous system; Vagal activity; Vagal tone

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014050214     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00213     Document Type: Review

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