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    "title": "TAP reading note: Heart Rate Variability and Cardiac Vagal Tone in Psychophysiological Research - Recommendations for Experiment Planning, Data Analysis, and Data Reporting",
    "description": "The authors explain how HRV research depends on experimental design, recording conditions, artifact handling and the specific metric chosen. Resting values, reactivity and recovery are distinct parts of a measurement protocol.",
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      "id": "laborde-2017",
      "title": "Heart Rate Variability and Cardiac Vagal Tone in Psychophysiological Research - Recommendations for Experiment Planning, Data Analysis, and Data Reporting",
      "authors": "Sylvain Laborde · Emma Mosley · Julian F. Thayer",
      "journal": "Frontiers in Psychology",
      "year": "2017",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00213",
      "doi": "10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00213",
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      {
        "id": "laborde-2017",
        "title": "Heart Rate Variability and Cardiac Vagal Tone in Psychophysiological Research - Recommendations for Experiment Planning, Data Analysis, and Data Reporting",
        "authors": "Sylvain Laborde · Emma Mosley · Julian F. Thayer",
        "journal": "Frontiers in Psychology",
        "year": "2017",
        "url": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00213",
        "doi": "10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00213",
        "pmid": "28265249"
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      {
        "id": "finding",
        "title": "What the study found",
        "paragraphs": [
          "The authors explain how HRV research depends on experimental design, recording conditions, artifact handling and the specific metric chosen. Resting values, reactivity and recovery are distinct parts of a measurement protocol."
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "limits",
        "title": "Scope & limitations",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Methodological recommendations for psychophysiological research, with a focus on cardiac vagal tone.",
          "These are research recommendations rather than universal clinical thresholds. They do not validate a particular wearable or justify interpreting a proprietary score as whole-body recovery."
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "sample",
        "title": "Population & sample",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Methodological recommendations for psychophysiological research, with a focus on cardiac vagal tone."
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "exposure",
        "title": "Exposure or intervention",
        "paragraphs": [
          "HRV acquisition and analysis, including posture, respiration, recording duration and movement."
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "outcomes",
        "title": "Outcomes",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Interpretability and comparability of HRV measures used to study cardiac vagal regulation."
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "duration",
        "title": "Time frame",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Resting, challenge and recovery recordings; appropriate durations depend on the metric and question."
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "funding",
        "title": "Research funding",
        "paragraphs": [
          "German Sport University Cologne, grant HIFF 920147."
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "conflicts",
        "title": "Research conflicts of interest",
        "paragraphs": [
          "The authors declared no commercial or financial relationships that could constitute a conflict."
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "basis",
        "title": "Reading scope",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Based on the publication’s text, including Measurement Standards, Respiration, Artifact Correction, Conclusion / Table 2 and disclosures. This reading note has not undergone independent scientific review."
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