Skip to main content
bioRxiv
  • Home
  • About
  • Submit
  • ALERTS / RSS
Advanced Search
New Results

Active information sampling varies across the cardiac cycle

Stella Kunzendorf, Felix Klotzsche, Mert Akbal, Arno Villringer, Sven Ohl, Michael Gaebler
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/283838
Stella Kunzendorf
1Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
2Dept. of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
3MindBrainBody Institute at Berlin School of Mind and Brain
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
  • For correspondence: stella.kunzendorf@charite.de
Felix Klotzsche
2Dept. of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
3MindBrainBody Institute at Berlin School of Mind and Brain
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Mert Akbal
2Dept. of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
3MindBrainBody Institute at Berlin School of Mind and Brain
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Arno Villringer
1Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
2Dept. of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
3MindBrainBody Institute at Berlin School of Mind and Brain
6Leipzig Research Centre for Civilization Diseases (LIFE), University Hospital Leipzig
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Sven Ohl
4Bernstein Center of Computational Neuroscience, Berlin
5Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Michael Gaebler
2Dept. of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
3MindBrainBody Institute at Berlin School of Mind and Brain
6Leipzig Research Centre for Civilization Diseases (LIFE), University Hospital Leipzig
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
  • Abstract
  • Full Text
  • Info/History
  • Metrics
  • Supplementary material
  • Preview PDF
Loading

Abstract

Perception and cognition oscillate with fluctuating bodily states. For example, visual processing has been shown to change with alternating cardiac phases. Here, we study the heartbeat’s role for active information sampling—testing whether humans implicitly act upon their environment so that relevant signals appear during preferred cardiac phases.

During the encoding period of a visual memory experiment, participants clicked through a set of emotional pictures to memorize them for a later recognition test. By self-paced key press, they actively prompted the onset of shortly (100-ms) presented pictures. Simultaneously recorded electrocardiograms allowed us to analyse the self-initiated picture onsets relative to the heartbeat. We find that self-initiated picture onsets vary across the cardiac cycle, showing an increase during cardiac systole, while memory performance was not affected by the heartbeat. We conclude that active information sampling integrates heart-related signals, thereby extending previous findings on the association between body-brain interactions and behaviour.

Copyright 
The copyright holder for this preprint is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license.
Back to top
PreviousNext
Posted January 26, 2019.
Download PDF

Supplementary Material

Email

Thank you for your interest in spreading the word about bioRxiv.

NOTE: Your email address is requested solely to identify you as the sender of this article.

Enter multiple addresses on separate lines or separate them with commas.
Active information sampling varies across the cardiac cycle
(Your Name) has forwarded a page to you from bioRxiv
(Your Name) thought you would like to see this page from the bioRxiv website.
CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.
Share
Active information sampling varies across the cardiac cycle
Stella Kunzendorf, Felix Klotzsche, Mert Akbal, Arno Villringer, Sven Ohl, Michael Gaebler
bioRxiv 283838; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/283838
Digg logo Reddit logo Twitter logo Facebook logo Google logo LinkedIn logo Mendeley logo
Citation Tools
Active information sampling varies across the cardiac cycle
Stella Kunzendorf, Felix Klotzsche, Mert Akbal, Arno Villringer, Sven Ohl, Michael Gaebler
bioRxiv 283838; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/283838

Citation Manager Formats

  • BibTeX
  • Bookends
  • EasyBib
  • EndNote (tagged)
  • EndNote 8 (xml)
  • Medlars
  • Mendeley
  • Papers
  • RefWorks Tagged
  • Ref Manager
  • RIS
  • Zotero
  • Tweet Widget
  • Facebook Like
  • Google Plus One

Subject Area

  • Neuroscience
Subject Areas
All Articles
  • Animal Behavior and Cognition (4094)
  • Biochemistry (8784)
  • Bioengineering (6490)
  • Bioinformatics (23377)
  • Biophysics (11761)
  • Cancer Biology (9164)
  • Cell Biology (13267)
  • Clinical Trials (138)
  • Developmental Biology (7420)
  • Ecology (11380)
  • Epidemiology (2066)
  • Evolutionary Biology (15110)
  • Genetics (10408)
  • Genomics (14017)
  • Immunology (9133)
  • Microbiology (22086)
  • Molecular Biology (8792)
  • Neuroscience (47417)
  • Paleontology (350)
  • Pathology (1421)
  • Pharmacology and Toxicology (2483)
  • Physiology (3710)
  • Plant Biology (8060)
  • Scientific Communication and Education (1433)
  • Synthetic Biology (2213)
  • Systems Biology (6019)
  • Zoology (1251)