Cardiac cycle time effects on mask inhibition

Pramme, Lisa; Larra, Mauro F.; Schächinger, Hartmut; Frings, Christian

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“…processing (Pramme et al, 2014(Pramme et al, , 2016 and increased oculomotor activity (Ohl et al, 2016) during the early phase of the cardiac cycle, we hypothesized that participants prefer to prompt a visual stimulus during early phases of the cardiac cycle. In addition, we hypothesized memory performance to be influenced by the cardiac time point of memory probes during encoding (Garfinkel et al, 2013).…”

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“…We studied the association between the cardiac cycle and self-paced visual sampling as well as visual recognition memory for pictures of different emotional valence. We hypothesized that facilitated visual processing (Pramme et al, 2014(Pramme et al, , 2016)-observed specifically for relevant or emotionally salient stimuli (Azevedo et al, 2018(Azevedo et al, , 2017Garfinkel et al, 2014)-as well as facilitated oculomotor processing during systole (Ohl et al, 2016) guides active perception in the shape of a preference to prompt a relevant visual stimulus during early phases of the cardiac cycle. We observed a significant accumulation of key presses (i.e., prompted picture onsets) during systole, thereby showing for the first time a coupling between self-paced visual sampling and the heartbeat.…”

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“…Based on findings of facilitated processing for visual stimuli (Azevedo et al, 2018(Azevedo et al, , 2017Garfinkel et al, 2014;Pramme, Larra, Schächinger, & Frings, 2014, 2016 and increased oculomotor activity (Ohl et al, 2016) during early phases of the cardiac cycle, we here hypothesized that active information sampling (i.e., self-initiated action toward a visual stimulus) shows periodic variations with the phase of our heartbeat. To investigate perception and action within a comprehensive framework of mind-brain-body interactions, we studied cardiac-related sensorimotor processing in a self-paced visual sampling paradigm, in which participants decide when to press a key to see a task-relevant visual stimulus.…”

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Perception and cognition oscillate with fluctuating bodily states. For example, visual processing has been shown to change with alternating cardiac phases. Here, we study the heartbeat's role for active information sampling-testing whether humans implicitly act upon their environment so that relevant signals appear during preferred cardiac phases. During the encoding period of a visual memory experiment, participants clicked through a set of emotional pictures to memorize them for a later recognition test. By self-paced key press, they actively prompted the onset of short (100 ms) presented pictures. Simultaneously recorded electrocardiograms allowed us to analyze the self-initiated picture onsets relative to the heartbeat. We find that self-initiated picture onsets vary across the cardiac cycle, showing an increase during cardiac systole, while memory performance was not affected by the heartbeat. We conclude that active information sampling integrates heart-related signals, thereby extending previous findings on the association between body-brain interactions and behavior. K E Y W O R D Scardiovascular, emotion, interoception, memory, sensation/perception, young adults 2 of 16 | KUNZENDORF Et al. Cardiac activity occurs in a cycle of two phases: During diastole, the ventricles relax to be filled with blood; during systole, the ventricles contract and eject blood into the arteries, while visceral pathways send information about each heartbeat to the brain (Critchley & Harrison, 2013). Such natural phasic changes of the cardiovascular state have been mainly associated with variations in perception. For sensory processing, which is typically measured with detection tasks or reaction time tasks, response to passively presented stimuli has been shown to be attenuated during early cardiac phases (i.e., during systole) or relatively enhanced at later time points in the cardiac cycle (i.e., at diastole;

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“…Based on findings of facilitated processing for visual stimuli (Azevedo et al, 2018, 114 2017; Garfinkel et al, 2014;Pramme et al, 2014Pramme et al, , 2016 and increased oculomotor activity 115 (Ohl et al, 2016) during early phases of the cardiac cycle, we here hypothesized that active 116 information sampling (i.e., self-initiated action towards a visual stimulus) shows periodic vari-117 ations with the phase of our heartbeat. To investigate perception and action within a compre-118 hensive framework of mind-brain-body interactions, we here studied cardiac-related sen-119 sorimotor processing in a self-paced visual sampling paradigm, in which participants decide 120 when to press a key to see a task-relevant visual stimulus.…”

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Active information sampling varies across the cardiac cycle

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1Perception and cognition oscillate with fluctuating bodily states. For example, visual pro-2 cessing has been shown to change with alternating cardiac phases. Here, we study the 3 heartbeat's role for active information sampling-testing whether humans implicitly act upon 4 their environment so that relevant signals appear during preferred cardiac phases. 5During the encoding period of a visual memory experiment, participants clicked 6 through a set of emotional pictures to memorize them for a later recognition test. By self-7 paced key press, they actively prompted the onset of shortly (100-ms) presented pictures. 8Simultaneously recorded electrocardiograms allowed us to analyse the self-initiated picture 9 onsets relative to the heartbeat. We find that self-initiated picture onsets vary across the car-10 diac cycle, showing an increase during cardiac systole, while memory performance was not 11 affected by the heartbeat. We conclude that active information sampling integrates heart-12 related signals, thereby extending previous findings on the association between body-brain 13 interactions and behaviour.

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“…Moreover, the evaluation of affective stimuli (Garfinkel et al, 2014;Gray et al, 2012) as well as short-and long-term memory seem affected by naturally occurring blood pressure fluctuations within the cardiac cycle (Garfinkel et al, 2013;Martins, McIntyre, & Ring, 2014). In addition, in a recent study, Pramme, Larra, Sch€ achinger, and Frings (2014) reported early visual selection being related to the timing within the cardiac cycle. In their study, the discrimination of a perceptually degraded target against a forward mask was enhanced when the stimulus sequence was presented during the cardiac systole compared to the diastole-suggesting inhibitory effects on mask interference at the time of increased baroreceptor activation that facilitate the separation of the neural processing of the target from that of the mask.…”

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Cardiac cycle time effects on selection efficiency in vision

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The effect of cardiac cycle time on attentional selection was investigated in an experiment in which participants classified target letters in a visual selection task. Stimulus onsets were aligned to the R wave of the electrocardiogram and stimuli presented either during the ventricular systole or diastole. Selection efficiency was operationalized as difference in target selection performance under conditions of homogeneous and heterogeneous distractors. Differences in performance (i.e., the impact selection difficulty had on the ability to select the target) were attenuated for stimuli presented during the ventricular systole compared to the diastole. Increased baroafferent signal transmission during the systole appears to reduce interference of highly distracting stimuli on visual selection efficiency.

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Cardiac cycle time effects on mask inhibition

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Active information sampling varies across the cardiac cycle

Active information sampling varies across the cardiac cycle

Active information sampling varies across the cardiac cycle

Cardiac cycle time effects on selection efficiency in vision

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