Heartbeat evoked potentials (HEP): topography and influence of cardiac awareness and focus of attention
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Heartbeat evoked potentials (HEP) were recorded from good and poor heartbeat perceivers under two conditions differing in focus of attention. Under the first condition (ATT), subjects were instructed to count their heartbeats. Under the second condition (DIS), subjects were distracted from their heartbeats by having them count external tones. Electrical brain activity was recorded from 19 electrodes. EEG epochs were triggered by the R wave of the EKG. Analyses of variance yielded a significant difference for focus of attention in HEP amplitudes at central electrodes (Cz, C3, and C4) in the latency range 350-550 msec post R wave. No significant differences occurred between good and poor perceivers. The interaction between the Group and Condition factors was significant at F4, C4 and T6. The potential map of good perceivers showed a fronto-temporal positivity, which was reduced in poor perceivers. Our data suggest that paying attention to an internal event such as the heartbeat can modify the cortical evoked response associated with that event.
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HEP results are consistent with previous investigations concerning the neural response to heartbeats, in that effects were typically found between 200 ms and 500 ms after ECG R peaks.
“Our HEP results are consistent with previous investigations concerning the neural response to heartbeats, in that the effects were typically found to exist between 200 ms and 500 ms after ECG R peaks (Montoya et al. 1993;Pollatos and Schandry 2004).”
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Turning attention inwards and explicitly attending to one's own heartbeats consistently modulates HERs.
“Turning attention inwards and explicitly attending to one's own heartbeats consistently modulates HERs 92-98 .”
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- Authors
- Montoya, P., Schandry, R., & Müller, A.
- Affiliations
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Schandry, Rainer
- ORCID
- Montoya, Pedro
- Venue
- Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology/Evoked Potentials Section
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1993-05
- Volume
- 88
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 163-172
- ISSN
- 0168-5597 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2088107968
- Cited by
- 239
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- FWCI
- 1.32
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
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- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Keywords
- heartbeat-evoked potentials, heartbeat perception, attentional focus, EEG topography, R wave, heartbeat counting
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Analysis of Variance, Attention, Brain, Brain Mapping, Electrocardiography, Electroencephalography, Evoked Potentials, Female, Heart Rate, Humans, Male, Perception, Reaction Time
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