Sigh rate and respiratory variability during mental load and sustained attention.
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Spontaneous breathing consists of substantial correlated variability: Parameters characterizing a breath are correlated with parameters characterizing previous and future breaths. On the basis of dynamic system theory, negative emotion states are predicted to reduce correlated variability whereas sustained attention is expected to reduce total respiratory variability. Both are predicted to evoke sighing. To test this, respiratory variability and sighing were assessed during a baseline, stressful mental arithmetic task, nonstressful sustained attention task, and recovery in between tasks. For respiration rate (excluding sighs), reduced total variability was found during the attention task, whereas correlated variation was reduced during mental load. Sigh rate increased during mental load and during recovery from the attention task. It is concluded that mental load and task‐related attention show specific patterns in respiratory variability and sigh rate.
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These studies point to the importance of a flexible respiratory system.
“Moreover, these studies point to the importance of a flexible respiratory system (Vlemincx et al., 2011), similar as the required flexibility described with regard to HRV and stress (Thayer and Lane, 2000).”
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- Authors
- Vlemincx, E., Taelman, J., De Peuter, S., Van Diest, I., & Van Den Bergh, O.
- Affiliations
- KU Leuven (BE)
- Venue
- Psychophysiology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2010-12-09
- Volume
- 48
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 117-120
- ISSN
- 0048-5772 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-8986
- OpenAlex
- W1532516087
- Cited by
- 142
- References
- 2
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- FWCI
- 3.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Psychophysiology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Lirias (KU Leuven) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring
- Keywords
- respiratory variation, sustained attention, mental workload, mental arithmetic, negative emotions, dynamical systems theory, respiration rate, stress, recovery
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Analysis of Variance, Attention, Female, Humans, Male, Mathematics, Problem Solving, Respiratory Physiological Phenomena, Young Adult
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