Heart Rate Variability and Cardiac Vagal Tone in Psychophysiological Research - Recommendations for Experiment Planning, Data Analysis, and Data Reporting
Sylvain Laborde · Emma Mosley · Julian F. Thayer
Frontiers in Psychology · 2017
What the research tells us
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.
What to keep in mind
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.
Study at a glance
- POPULATION & SAMPLE
- Methodological recommendations for psychophysiological research, with a focus on cardiac vagal tone.
- EXPOSURE / INTERVENTION / SUBJECT
- HRV acquisition and analysis, including posture, respiration, recording duration and movement.
- OUTCOMES
- Interpretability and comparability of HRV measures used to study cardiac vagal regulation.
- TIME FRAME
- Resting, challenge and recovery recordings; appropriate durations depend on the metric and question.
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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.
- STUDY FUNDING
- German Sport University Cologne, grant HIFF 920147.
- STUDY CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
- The authors declared no commercial or financial relationships that could constitute a conflict.
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Founded and supported by Resilio.
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