Journal article
Cardiac signals are independently associated with temporal discounting and time perception
C MURAWSKI, B Fung, D Crone, S Bode
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience | Frontiers Media | Published : 2017
Abstract
Cardiac signals reflect the function of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and have previously been associated with a range of self-regulatory behaviors such as emotion regulation and memory recall. It is unknown whether cardiac signals may also be associated with self-regulation in the temporal domain, in particular impulsivity. We assessed both decision impulsivity (temporal discounting, TD) and time perception impulsivity (duration reproduction, DR) in 120 participants while they underwent electrocardiography in order to test whether cardiac signals were related to these two aspects of impulsivity. We found that over the entire period of task performance, individuals with higher heart rat..
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Grants
Awarded by Australian Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported by a Faculty of Business and Economics (University of Melbourne) Strategic Initiatives Grant 2011 to CM and SB, and an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DE 140100350) to SB. We thank Stacey Peters, Simon Laham, Daniel Bennett, Katharina Voigt and Daniel Rosenblatt and Angelina Yin Fong for helpful comments and suggestions, and Jessica Paul, William Turner and Phillip Johnston for help with collecting the data.