Heart Rate Variability and Cardiac Vagal Tone in Psychophysiological Research - Recommendations for Experiment Planning, Data Analysis, and Data Reporting.
Heart Rate Variability and Cardiac Vagal Tone in Psychophysiological Research - Recommendations for Experiment Planning, Data Analysis, and Data Reporting.
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DOI：
10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00213
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发表时间：
2017
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3.8
通讯作者：
Thayer JF
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作者：
Laborde S;Mosley E;Thayer JF
在过去的二十年中，整合心率变异性（HRV）的心理生理学研究有所增加，特别是考虑到HRV能够指示心脏迷走神经张力。心脏迷走神经张力代表了副交感神经系统对心脏调节的贡献，被认为与许多心理生理学研究相关的现象有关，包括认知，情感，社会和健康水平的自我调节。HRV采集和测量的便利性，加上它相对经济实惠、无创和无痛的事实，使许多研究人员都能广泛使用它。这种易于获取的情况不应掩盖解释心率变异性结果的困难，因为心率变异性结果很容易被误解，但是，这可以通过正确的方法过程在一定程度上进行控制。测量标准是二十年前由HRV研究中的一个工作组开发的，最近的评论更新了工作组论文的几个方面。然而，如果要得出合理的结论，必须考虑心理生理学研究中与HRV相关的许多方法学方面，这使得难以解释结果并比较实验室之间的结果。这些方法论问题主要是在不同的渠道讨论的，很难掌握它们，因此本文旨在解决这个问题。它将有助于为心理生理学研究人员提供有关实验设计，数据分析和数据报告的建议和实用建议。这将确保研究人员开始一个项目与心率变异性和心脏迷走神经张力充分了解有关方法的考虑，以便他们的研究结果有助于知识进步在他们的领域。
Psychophysiological research integrating heart rate variability (HRV) has increased during the last two decades, particularly given the fact that HRV is able to index cardiac vagal tone. Cardiac vagal tone, which represents the contribution of the parasympathetic nervous system to cardiac regulation, is acknowledged to be linked with many phenomena relevant for psychophysiological research, including self-regulation at the cognitive, emotional, social, and health levels. The ease of HRV collection and measurement coupled with the fact it is relatively affordable, non-invasive and pain free makes it widely accessible to many researchers. This ease of access should not obscure the difficulty of interpretation of HRV findings that can be easily misconstrued, however, this can be controlled to some extent through correct methodological processes. Standards of measurement were developed two decades ago by a Task Force within HRV research, and recent reviews updated several aspects of the Task Force paper. However, many methodological aspects related to HRV in psychophysiological research have to be considered if one aims to be able to draw sound conclusions, which makes it difficult to interpret findings and to compare results across laboratories. Those methodological issues have mainly been discussed in separate outlets, making difficult to get a grasp on them, and thus this paper aims to address this issue. It will help to provide psychophysiological researchers with recommendations and practical advice concerning experimental designs, data analysis, and data reporting. This will ensure that researchers starting a project with HRV and cardiac vagal tone are well informed regarding methodological considerations in order for their findings to contribute to knowledge advancement in their field.