Effect of heartbeat perception on heartbeat evoked potential waves

Abstract

Objective Early researches found that different heartbeat perceivers have different heartbeat evoked potential (HEP) waves. Two tasks were considered in our experiments to get more details about the differences between good and poor heartbeat perceivers at attention and resting state. Methods Thirty channels of electroencephalogram (EEG) were recorded in 22 subjects, who had been subdivided into good and poor heartbeat perceivers by mental tracking task. Principal component analysis (PCA) was applied to remove cardiac field artifact (CFA) from the HEP. Results (1) The good heart-beat perceivers showed difference between attention and resting state in the windows from 250 ms to 450 ms after R wave at C3 location and from 100 ms to 300 ms after R wave at C4 location; (2) The difference waveforms between good and poor heartbeat perceivers was a positive waveform at FZ from 220 ms to 340 ms after R wave, which was more significant in attention state. Conclusion Attention state had more effect on the HEPs of good heartbeat perceivers than that of poor heartbeat perceivers; and perception ability influenced HEPs more strongly in the attention state than in the resting state.

Altered Patterns of Heartbeat-Evoked Potentials in Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder

“…Previous studies have demonstrated a positive association between heartbeat perception accuracy in the Schandry task and HEPs when assessed during this task, but not when assessed during rest (22,79). In the current study, the correlation between HEPs and accuracy in the Schandry task was low and not significant (r = 0.151, p = .33), which may be due to the fact that HEPs in the current analysis were aggregated over the Schandry task and the resting period.…”

Short‐term food deprivation increases amplitudes of heartbeat‐evoked potentials

“…Up to 450 ms after the R wave, the HEP amplitude and the electrocardiac field partially overlap (Dirlich, Vogl, Plaschke, & Strian, ; Schandry et al., ). In the literature, there were different approaches described to overcome this possible confounding factor: in some studies, the electrocardiac field was eliminated using the Hjorth source derivation method (Pollatos et al., ; Pollatos & Schandry, ), others subtracted components possibly originating from the ECG via principal (Yuan, Yan, Xu, Han, & Yan, ) or independent component analysis (Terhaar, Viola, Bar, & Debener, ), and some newer studies limited the analysis on a time window of 455–595 ms after the R wave, during which the electrocardiac field is considered minimal (Gray et al., ; Schulz, Strelzyk et al., ). Here, we used the latter approach and analyzed HEP amplitudes during the previously established interval of R +455–595 ms. HEP amplitudes of F3 and F7, as well as F4 and F8, were collapsed to create an equal‐sized 3 (frontal, central, parietal) × 3 (left, midline, right) electrode field on the scalp.…”

Neural correlates of heart-focused interoception: a functional magnetic resonance imaging meta-analysis

“…Kuehn and co-workers [51] found only right-hemispheric activation in participants with high cardioceptive accuracy. Further evidence for right-insular dominance for interoception comes from electroencephalography-(EEG-) based dipole source-localization studies [97,98]. EEG studies on the so-called heartbeat-evoked potential also have shown greater amplitudes over right electrode positions for subjects with high cardioceptive accuracy/ sensitivity [99,100].…”