Heart rate and blood pressure interactions during attempts to consciously raise or lower heart rate and blood pressure in normotensive subjects

Lowdon, P.; Murray, Alan; Langley, Philip

doi:10.1088/0967-3334/32/3/007

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“…Respiration is the classic example of an autonomic mechanism directly amenable to conscious control. Absent any form of conditioning, there is also evidence of volitional control of HR ( Bell & Schwartz, 1975 ; White, Holmes & Bennett, 1977 ) and blood pressure ( Lowdon, Murray & Langley, 2011 ). As autonomic systems co-modify, the above effects may be combined.…”

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The voluntary control of piloerection

Heathers

Fayn

Silvia

et al. 2018

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Autonomic nervous systems in the human body are named for their operation outside of conscious control. One rare exception is voluntarily generated piloerection (VGP)—the conscious ability to induce goosebumps—whose physiological study, to our knowledge, is confined to three single-individual case studies. Very little is known about the physiological nature and emotional correlates of this ability. The current manuscript assesses physiological, emotional, and personality phenomena associated with VGP in a sample of thirty-two individuals. Physiological descriptions obtained from the sample are consistent with previous reports, including stereotypical patterns of sensation and action. Most participants also reported that their VGP accompanies psychological states associated with affective states (e.g., awe) and experience (e.g., listening to music), and higher than typical openness to new experiences. These preliminary findings suggest that this rare and unusual physiological ability interacts with emotional and personality factors, and thus merits further study.

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The voluntary control of piloerection

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Fayn

Silvia

et al. 2018

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“…The voluntary control of piloerection may serve as an efficient method for observing this reaction and contribute to the neuroscientific investigation of piloerection. The autonomic nervous system (ANS) functions largely outside of consciousness, but the abilities possessed by rare individuals or strategies learned through training such as biofeedback methods enable volitional control of ANS activities, including heart rate (Brener and Hothersall, 1966;Bell and Schwartz, 1975;Jones et al, 2015), blood pressure (Lowdon et al, 2011), electrodermal activity (Nagai et al, 2004;O'Connell et al, 2008), and pupillary response (Ekman et al, 2008). Voluntary control of ANS activities is useful in investigating phenomena of interest because it guarantees the generation of robust responses in particular participants and consistently provides opportunities for repeated observations.…”

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Volitional Control of Piloerection: Objective Evidence and Its Potential Utility in Neuroscience Research

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The volitional control of piloerection has been previously reported in a small subset of individuals. Although this ability may be useful to study the mechanism underlying piloerection, there is little existing research on this ability, neither objective evidence at a group-level, nor information about its stability under experimental constraints. The present study aimed to validate existing findings of voluntarily generated piloerection (VGP) and to examine its potential contribution to neuroscientific research based on objective evidence of this ability. In Study 1, to confirm the characteristics of VGP reported in previous studies and identify individuals with VGP capability, an online survey of VGP candidates was conducted. In Study 2, 18 VGP holders participated in a mail-based piloerection measurement experiment, and the nature of VGP was examined based on the objective data obtained by image-based analysis (GooseLab). Study 1 largely confirmed the characteristics of VGP reported in previous studies, and Study 2 demonstrated VGP at a group-level and provided information about the temporal characteristics of this ability, which supports the utility of VGP in neuroscientific research. For some participants, VGP appeared to be emotionally promoted, which suggests that VGP has some relationship with the emotional nature of involuntary piloerection. Although the studies did not tightly control the environment in which VGP was elicited, the findings nonetheless demonstrate the possible contribution of VGP to elucidating the mechanism of involuntary emotional piloerection and the neural basis of piloerection itself.

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“…The voluntary control of piloerection may solve the problem of reproducibility. The autonomic nervous system (ANS) functions largely outside of consciousness, but the abilities possessed by rare individuals or strategies learned through training such as biofeedback methods enable volitional control of ANS activities, including heart rate (Brener and Hothersall, 1966;Bell and Schwartz, 1975;Jones et al, 2015), blood pressure (Lowdon et al, 2011), electrodermal activity (Nagai et al, 2004;O'Connell et al, 2008), and pupillary response (Ekman et al, 2008). These…”

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Volitional control of piloerection: objective evidence and its potential utility in neuroscience research

Katahira¹,

Kawakami²,

Tomita³

et al. 2019

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The ability of volitional control of piloerection has been reported in a rare subset of individuals. This ability may be useful to study involuntary emotional piloerection, as research on this phenomenon has suffered from low reproducibility. However, objective evidence at a group-level and stability under experimental constraints remain to be examined. The present study aimed to validate existing findings of voluntary generated piloerection (VGP) and to examine its potential contribution to neuroscientific research based on objective evidence of this ability. In Study 1, to confirm the characteristics of VGP reported in previous studies and identify individuals with VGP capability, an online survey of VGP candidates found through a large-scale screening was conducted. In Study 2, a total of 18 VGP holders participated in a mail-based piloerection measurement experiment, and the nature of VGP was examined based on the objective evidence obtained by image-based analysis (GooseLab). The results of the web survey largely recapitulated the characteristics of VGP reported in previous studies, and objective measurements revealed the utility of this ability in neuroscientific research. For some participants, VGP appeared to be emotionally promoted, which suggests that VGP shares the emotional nature of involuntary piloerection. The findings from this study demonstrated the possible contribution of VGP to elucidating the mechanism of involuntary emotional piloerection and the neural basis of piloerection itself.

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Heart rate and blood pressure interactions during attempts to consciously raise or lower heart rate and blood pressure in normotensive subjects

Cited by 6 publications

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The voluntary control of piloerection

The voluntary control of piloerection

Volitional Control of Piloerection: Objective Evidence and Its Potential Utility in Neuroscience Research

Volitional control of piloerection: objective evidence and its potential utility in neuroscience research

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