Cardiovascular correlates of emotional state, cognitive workload and time-on-task effect during a realistic flight simulation

Hidalgo‐Muñoz, Antonio R.; Mouratille, Damien; Matton, Nadine; Causse, Mickaël; Rouillard, Yves; Yagoubi, Radouane El

doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2018.04.002

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“…A positive correlation was observed between CTAS and STAI-t, r = .46, p < .001. A negative correlation was observed between STAI-t and ACS, r = -.52, p < .001, as commonly reported (e.g., [9,68,69]). A negative correlation was observed between CTAS and ACS, r = -.45, p < .001.…”

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I’m going to fail! Acute cognitive performance anxiety increases threat-interference and impairs WM performance

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Stress can impair cognitive performance, as commonly observed in cognitive performance anxiety (CPA; e.g., test anxiety). Cognitive theories indicate that stress impairs performance by increasing attention to negative thoughts, a phenomenon also known as threat-interference. These theories are mainly supported by findings related to self-report measures of threat-interference or trait anxiety. Our main aim was to test, for the first time in a single study, the hypotheses that acute CPA-related stress negatively affects both working memory (WM) performance and objectively assessed threat-interference during performance. In addition, we aimed to assess the validity of a new stress-induction procedure that was developed to induce acute CPA. Eighty-six females were randomly assigned to a CPA-related stress group (n = 45) or a control group. WM performance and threat-interference were assessed with an n-back task (2-back and 3-back memory loads), using CPA-related words as distracters. The stress group showed higher state anxiety and slower WM performance. Both effects were moderated by trait CPA: the effects were stronger for individuals with higher trait CPA. Finally, trait CPA moderated the effect of stress on threat-interference during higher cognitive load: individuals with higher trait CPA in the stress group showed higher threat-interference. We conclude that acute CPA increases threat-interference and impairs WM performance, especially in vulnerable individuals. The role of threat-interference, cognitive load, and trait anxiety should be taken into account in future research. Finally, our method (combining our stressor and modified n-back task) is effective for studying stress-cognition interactions in CPA.

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“…Complementary to HR, a decrease of HRV correlates with higher CW, as shown in other research works dealing with flying simulation where the task difficulty was manipulated to vary CW demand (Durantin et al, 2014). In addition, the decrease of HRV parameters could be linked to the emotional regulation (Appelhans and Luecken, 2006) and subsequently in relation to the stress generated by the task difficulty as other research works suggest (Mandrick et al, 2016; Hidalgo-Muñoz et al, 2018). It is important to remark the importance of the counterbalancing for the different tasks, as HRV parameters are sensitive to the physical activity previous to the task realization (Luft et al, 2009).…”

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Respiration and Heart Rate Modulation Due to Competing Cognitive Tasks While Driving

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Research works on operator monitoring underline the benefit of taking into consideration several signal modalities to improve accuracy for an objective mental state diagnosis. Heart rate (HR) is one of the most utilized systemic measures to assess cognitive workload (CW), whereas, respiration parameters are hardly utilized. This study aims at verifying the contribution of analyzing respiratory signals to extract features to evaluate driver’s activity and CW variations in driving. Eighteen subjects participated in the study. The participants carried out two different cognitive tasks requiring different CW demands, a single task as well as a competing cognitive task realized while driving in a simulator. Our results confirm that both HR and breathing rate (BR) increase in driving and are sensitive to CW. However, HR and BR are differently modulated by the CW variations in driving. Specifically, HR is affected by both driving activity and CW, whereas, BR is suitable to evidence a variation of CW only when driving is not required. On the other hand, spectral features characterizing respiratory signal could be also used similarly to HR variability indices to detect high CW episodes. These results hint the use of respiration as an alternative to HR to monitor the driver mental state in autonomic vehicles in order to predict the available cognitive resources if the user has to take over the vehicle.

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“…By applying these values, the recommended minimum sample size for these effects and interactions was less than 10 to achieve a power level of 90% and alpha <0.05. In addition, to attain the sufficient power of the effect of Time-on-Task (ToT) on performance measures and HRV, we considered recent ToT studies addressing mental workload (e.g., Hopstaken et al, 2015a; Hidalgo-Muñoz et al, 2018; Reteig et al, 2019) as well as our earlier studies conducted with protocols similar to the current study (Csathó et al, 2012, 2013, 2015). Calculating with the effect sizes reported in these papers, about 19 participants were recommended as a minimum sample size to detect ToT-related effects (power = 90% and alpha <0.05).…”

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Cross-Modal Conflict Increases With Time-on-Task in a Temporal Discrimination Task

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The modality appropriateness hypothesis argues that the auditory modality is preferred over the visual modality in tasks demanding temporal operations; hence, we predicted that responses to visual stimuli would be more sensitive to the detrimental effect of Time-on-Task. We used a bimodal temporal discrimination task. The factors were durational congruency between the modalities and the direction of modality-transmission. Participants needed to decide the duration of the cued stimulus (visual or auditory). The first five blocks of the task lasted about 1.5 h without rest [Time-on-Task (ToT) period]. The participants then had a 12-min break followed by an additional block of trials. Subjective fatigue, reaction time, error rates, and electrocardiographic data were recorded. In the visual modality, we found an enhanced congruency effect as a function of ToT. The cost of attentional shifting was higher in the auditory modality, but remained constant, suggesting that processing of auditory stimuli is robust against the effects of fatigue. Performance did not improve after the break, indicating that the effects of fatigue could not be overcome by taking a brief break. The heart rate variability (HRV) data showed that vagal inhibition increased with ToT, but this increase was not associated with the changes in performance.

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Cardiovascular correlates of emotional state, cognitive workload and time-on-task effect during a realistic flight simulation

Cited by 61 publications

References 40 publications

I’m going to fail! Acute cognitive performance anxiety increases threat-interference and impairs WM performance

I’m going to fail! Acute cognitive performance anxiety increases threat-interference and impairs WM performance

Respiration and Heart Rate Modulation Due to Competing Cognitive Tasks While Driving

Cross-Modal Conflict Increases With Time-on-Task in a Temporal Discrimination Task

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