Creative challenge: Regular exercising moderates the association between task-related heart rate variability changes and individual differences in originality.

ABSTRACT: Coping with mental challenges is vital to everyday functioning. In accordance with prominent theories, the adaptive and flexible adjustment of the organism to daily demands is well expressed in task-related changes of cardiac vagal control. While many mental challenges are associated with increased effort and associated decreased task-related heart rate variability (HRV), some cognitive challenges go along with HRV increases. Especially creativity represents a cognitive process, which not only results from mental effort but also from spontaneous modes of thinking. Critically, creativity and HRV are associated with regular exercising and fitness. Furthermore, the cross-stressor adaptation theory suggests that changes in cardiac reactions to physical challenges may generalize to mental chall

SUBMITTER: Rominger C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6645545 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature