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Stable T wave effects during improvement of heart rate control with biofeedback

Physiology & BehaviorPublished 1 January 1976
Thomas A. Matyas, M.G. King
Citations41
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SNIP0.84

TL;DR

Under audiovisual heart rate feedback the differences between attempts to accelerate and decelerate improved with practice and it was concluded that the improvement in heart rate control was parasympathetically mediated.

Abstract

Under audiovisual heart rate feedback the differences between attempts to accelerate and decelerate improved with practice. Simultaneously, T wave amplitude was reduced during acceleratory trials and remained constant during deceleratory trials. The T wave difference between acceleratory and deceleratory trials, unlike the heart rate differences, did not improve with trial repetition. It was concluded that the improvement in heart rate control was parasympathetically mediated.

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