Age Differences in High Frequency Phasic Heart Rate Variability and Performance Response to Increased Executive Function Load in Three Executive Function Tasks

The current study examines similarity or disparity of a frontally-mediated physiological response of mental effort among multiple executive functioning tasks between children and adults. Task performance and phasic heart rate variability (HRV) were recorded in children (6 to 10 years old) and adults...

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Main Authors: Dana Lynn Byrd, Erin Tarcza Reuther, Joseph P McNamara, Teri eDeLucca, William Keith Berg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01470/full