Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Heart rate variability during reading instruction and its interrelationship with effectiveness of subsequent visual-motor activities

  • Published:
Human Physiology Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Investigation of the processes of studying the instructions for subsequent activity by subjects is relevant in the context of systemic mechanisms of learning and memory processes and, moreover, concerns fundamental problems of psychophysiology, such as goal-directed attention, understanding the meaning of presented information, and formation of social motivation in human activities. The analysis of change in heart rate variability when reading instructions compared to the initial state of operative rest has shown that this stage of activity causes pronounced emotional stress, which is manifested in enhanced heart rate, lower variability, and changes in the spectral characteristics of heart rate. In addition, it was revealed that heart rate variability in the state of operative rest before testing and when reading instructions was positively correlated with the duration of studying the instruction and negatively correlated with the effectiveness and level of resistance of subjects to mismatching after making errors during the subsequent activities. Pronounced gender differences in relationships were shown between the changes in heart rate variability when reading the instructions and the indices of subsequent performance of a visual-motor test.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Anokhin, P.K., Fundamental problems of the general theory of functional systems, in Izbrannye trudy (Selected Works), Moscow: Nauka, 1978, p. 49.

    Google Scholar 

  2. Druzhinin, V.N., Subject: Activity in the experiment, in Eksperimental’naya psikhologiya: Uchebnik dlya vuzov (Experimental Psychology: Manual for Institutions of Higher Education), St. Petersburg: Piter, 2003, 2nd edition.

    Google Scholar 

  3. Znakov, V.V., Ponimanie v poznanii i obshchenii (Understanding in Cognition and Communication), Moscow: Institute of Psychology, 1998.

    Google Scholar 

  4. Piaget, J., Izbrannye psikhologicheskie trudy (Selected Psychological Works), Moscow: Prosveshchenie, 1969.

    Google Scholar 

  5. Runco, M.A., Illies, J.J., and Reiter-Palmon, R., Explicit instructions to be creative and original: A comparison of strategies and criteria as targets with three types of divergent thinking tests, Kor. J. Think. Probl. Solv., 2005, vol. 15, p. 5.

    Google Scholar 

  6. Razumnikova, O.M., Vol’f, N.V., and Tarasova, I.V., Influence of motivation on variations in the power of cortical biopotentials of the brain when performing figurative and verbal creative tasks, Zh. Vyssh. Nervn. Deyat., 2007, vol. 57, no. 5, p. 553.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  7. Vol’f, N.V. and Tarasova, I.V., Electrophysiological indices and possibilities of enhancing figurative creativity using monetary reward, Zh. Vyssh. Nervn. Deyat., 2012, vol. 62, no. 6, p. 692.

    Google Scholar 

  8. Mackay, D.G. and Johnson, L.W., Errors, error detection, error correction and hippocampal-region damage: Data and theories, J. Neuropsychol., 2013, vol. 51, no. 13, p. 2633.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  9. Marchant, D.C., Attentional focusing instructions and force production, Front. Psychol., 2010, vol. 1, p. 210.

    PubMed Central  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  10. Greig, M. and Marchant, D., Speed dependant influence of attentional focusing instructions on force production and muscular activity during isokinetic elbow flexions, Hum. Mov. Sci., 2013, Sep. 20. doi:pii: S0167-9457(13)00107-3. 10.1016/j.humov.2013.08.008.

    Google Scholar 

  11. Koolen, S., Vissers, C.T., Egger, J.I., and Verhoeven, L., Can monitoring in language comprehension in autism spectrum disorder be modulated? Evidence from event-related potentials, Biol. Psychol., 2013, vol. 94, no. 2, p. 354.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  12. Shuleikina, Yu.A., Logopaedic techniques for diagnostics and correction of understanding figurative language in primary schoolchildren with GSU, Defektologiya, 2011, no. 4, p. 38.

    Google Scholar 

  13. Dul’nev, G.M., Mental activities when performing tasks in manual training, in Khrestomatiya. Umstvennaya otstalost’. Kliniko-psikhologicheskoe izuchenie shkol’nikov s narusheniyami intellekta (Reading-Book. Mental Deficiency. Clinical-Psychological Study of Schoolchildren with Mental Disorders), Morgacheva, E.N., Ed., Moscow: RGGU, 2008, p. 390 (electronic edition).

    Google Scholar 

  14. Jager, A.J. and Wynia, M.K., Who gets a teach-back? Patient-reported incidence of experiencing a teachback, J. Health Commun., 2012, vol. 17,Suppl. 3, p. 294.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  15. Alberti, T.L. and Nannini, A., Patient comprehension of discharge instructions from the emergency department: A literature review, J. Am. Assoc. Nurse Pract., 2013, vol. 25, no. 4, p. 186.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  16. Danilova, N.N. and Astaf’ev, S.V., Human attention as a specific connection between EEG rhythms and heart rate wave modulators, Zh. Vyssh. Nervn. Deyat., 2000, vol. 50, no. 5, p. 791.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  17. Thayer, J.F., Åhs, F., Fredrikson, M., Sollers, J.J., III., and Wager, T.D., A meta-analysis of heart rate variability and neuroimaging studies: Implications for heart rate variability as a marker of stress and health, Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev., 2012, vol. 36, p. 747.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  18. Williamson, J.W., The relevance of central command for the neural cardiovascular control of exercise, Exp. Physiol., 2010, vol. 95, no. 11, p. 1043.

    Article  PubMed Central  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  19. Task Force of the European Society of Cardiology and the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology. Heart rate variability: Standards of measurement, physiological interpretation and clinical use, Circulation, 1996, vol. 93, no. 5, p. 1043.

    Google Scholar 

  20. Murtazina, E.P. and Zhuravlev, B.V., The express method of system analysis of psychophysiological peculiarities of goal-directed human activities, Byull. Exp. Biol. Med., 2013, vol. 156, no. 11, p. 650.

    Google Scholar 

  21. Danilova, N.N. and Astaf’ev, S.V., Changes in heart rate variability under information load, Zh. Vyssh. Nervn. Deyat., 1999, vol. 49, no. 1, p. 28.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  22. Kovalenko, A.B., Psychological peculiarities of the process of understanding creative tasks, Vopr. Psikhol., 1991, no. 5, p. 42.

    Google Scholar 

  23. Richard, J.F., Mental’naya aktivnost’. Ponimanie, rassuzhdenie, nakhozhdenie reshenii (Mental Activity. Understanding, Reasoning, Solution Finding), abridged translation from French by T.A. Rebeko, Moscow: Institute of Psychology, 1998.

    Google Scholar 

  24. Razumnikova, O.M., Volf, N.V., and Tarasova, I.V., Strategy and Results: Sex Differences in Electrographic Correlates of Verbal and Figural Creativity, Hum. Physiol., 2009, vol. 35, no. 3, p. 31.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  25. Park, G., Vasey, M.W., Van Bavel, J.J., and Thayer, J.F., Cardiac vagal tone is correlated with selective attention to neutral distractors under load, Psychophysiology, 2013, vol. 50, p. 398.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  26. Vederko, O.V., Danilova, N.N., Gulyaeva, N.V., Kogan, B.M., Lazareva, N.A., and Onufriev, M.V., Effects of informational stress in a person: Correlation between biochemical parameters and heart rate, Neirokhimiya, 2003, vol. 20, no. 1, p. 68.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  27. Johnsen, B.H., Hansen, A.L., Murison, R., Eid, J., and Thayer, J.F., Heart rate variability and cortisol responses during attentional and working memory tasks in naval cadets, Psychol. Topics, 2007, vol. 16, no. 2, p. 241.

    Google Scholar 

  28. Chen, A.J.-W., Novakovic-Agopian, T., Nycum, T.J., et al. Training of goal-directed attention regulation enhances control over neural processing for individuals with brain injury, Brain, 2011, vol. 134, p. 1541.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  29. Riganello, F., Dolce, G., and Sannita, W.G., Heart rate variability and the central autonomic network in the severe disorder of consciousness, J. Rehabil. Med., 2012, vol. 44, p. 495.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  30. Asplund, C.L., Todd, J.J., Snyder, A.P., and Marois, R., A central role for the lateral prefrontal cortex in goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention, Nat. Neurosci., 2010, vol. 13, no. 4, p. 507.

    Article  PubMed Central  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Anokhin Research Institute of Normal Physiology, Moscow, 125315, Russia

    E. P. Murtazina

Authors
  1. E. P. Murtazina
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to E. P. Murtazina.

Additional information

Original Russian Text © E.P. Murtazina, 2015, published in Fiziologiya Cheloveka, 2015, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 29–37.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Murtazina, E.P. Heart rate variability during reading instruction and its interrelationship with effectiveness of subsequent visual-motor activities. Hum Physiol 41, 135–142 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0362119715020140

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0362119715020140

Keywords

Search

Navigation