It's About Time-Breathing Dynamics Modulate Emotion and Cognition.

ABSTRACT: The breathing rate, phase, and amplitude have been shown to track changes in emotional states such as anxiety and cognitive performance in tasks that involve perception, attention, and short-term memory. It is common practice to characterize breathing by using a block average breathing rate, phase, or amplitude. While these features are useful for measuring the central tendencies of breathing, they do not capture the structure of the patterns of change in its activity over time (i.e., breathing dynamics) whose relationship with affective and cognitive processes remains unclear. To fill this knowledge gap, we characterized breathing dynamics by a set of measures that capture the breathing signal's rate and amplitude central tendency, variability, complexity, entropy, and timescales. Then, w

SUBMITTER: Goheen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12424284 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature