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Resting heart rate variability in young women is a predictor of EEG reactions to linguistic ambiguity in sentences. / Liou, Michelle; Hsieh, Jih Fu; Evans, Jonathan et al.
In: Brain Research, Vol. 1701, 15.12.2018, p. 1-17.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Resting heart rate variability in young women is a predictor of EEG reactions to linguistic ambiguity in sentences
AU - Liou, Michelle
AU - Hsieh, Jih Fu
AU - Evans, Jonathan
AU - Su, I. wen
AU - Nayak, Siddharth
AU - Lee, Juin Der
AU - Savostyanov, Alexander N.
N1 - Copyright © 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/12/15
Y1 - 2018/12/15
N2 - Recent research has found a relationship between heart rate variability (HRV) and cognitive control mechanisms underlying various experimental tasks. This study explored the interaction between gender and resting-state HRV in brain oscillatory activity during visual recognition of linguistic ambiguity while taking state and trait anxiety scores into account. It is well known that stress or anxiety increases arousal levels, particularly under uncertainty situations. We tasked 50 young Mandarin speakers (26 women; average age 26.00 ± 4.449) with the recognition of linguistic ambiguity in English (foreign) sentences with the purpose of imposing a sense of uncertainty in decision-making. Our results revealed a dependency between resting-state HRV and theta/alpha power in individual women. Low HRV women showed stronger theta/alpha desynchronization compared with their high HRV counterparts, independent of topographic localization. However, low and high HRV men exhibited comparable theta/alpha activity. Trait anxiety scores affected alpha power in the parieto-occipital regions, whereas men with higher scores and women with lower scores showed stronger alpha desynchronization. We posit that stress-provoking situations may impose additional effects on theta/alpha desynchronization in the frontal and temporal regions, a condition in which the interdependency between brain oscillatory activity and resting-state HRV could interact with cognitive control differently in men and women.
AB - Recent research has found a relationship between heart rate variability (HRV) and cognitive control mechanisms underlying various experimental tasks. This study explored the interaction between gender and resting-state HRV in brain oscillatory activity during visual recognition of linguistic ambiguity while taking state and trait anxiety scores into account. It is well known that stress or anxiety increases arousal levels, particularly under uncertainty situations. We tasked 50 young Mandarin speakers (26 women; average age 26.00 ± 4.449) with the recognition of linguistic ambiguity in English (foreign) sentences with the purpose of imposing a sense of uncertainty in decision-making. Our results revealed a dependency between resting-state HRV and theta/alpha power in individual women. Low HRV women showed stronger theta/alpha desynchronization compared with their high HRV counterparts, independent of topographic localization. However, low and high HRV men exhibited comparable theta/alpha activity. Trait anxiety scores affected alpha power in the parieto-occipital regions, whereas men with higher scores and women with lower scores showed stronger alpha desynchronization. We posit that stress-provoking situations may impose additional effects on theta/alpha desynchronization in the frontal and temporal regions, a condition in which the interdependency between brain oscillatory activity and resting-state HRV could interact with cognitive control differently in men and women.
KW - Anxiety
KW - Event-related spectral perturbations (ERSPs)
KW - Resting-state HRV
KW - Semantic recognition
KW - Stress
KW - Uncertainty in decision-making
KW - MENSTRUAL-CYCLE
KW - ALPHA-OSCILLATIONS
KW - COGNITIVE FUNCTION
KW - PHASE-SYNCHRONIZATION
KW - THETA-OSCILLATIONS
KW - TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY
KW - SEX-DIFFERENCES
KW - RIGHT-HEMISPHERE
KW - GENDER-DIFFERENCES
KW - EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS
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U2 - 10.1016/j.brainres.2018.07.009
DO - 10.1016/j.brainres.2018.07.009
M3 - Article
C2 - 30006295
AN - SCOPUS:85049995569
VL - 1701
SP - 1
EP - 17
JO - Brain Research
JF - Brain Research
SN - 0006-8993
ER -
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