Respiratory modulation of cognitive performance during the retrieval process

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 13; no. 9; p. e0204021
• Main Authors: Nakamura, Nozomu H., Fukunaga, Masaki, Oku, Yoshitaka
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 14.09.2018; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Accuracy; Attenuation; Biology and Life Sciences; Brain; Brain research; Breathing; Cognitive ability; Cognitive tasks; Engineering and Technology; Human subjects; Matching-to-sample; Medical research; Medicine and Health Sciences; Memory; Phase transitions; Physiology; Research and Analysis Methods; Respiration; Response time; Retrieval; Studies; Variation; Variations; Visual tasks; Hyogo Japan; Japan

Recent research suggests that cognitive performance might be altered by the respiratory-synchronized activity generated in the brain. Previous human studies, however, have yielded inconsistent results when assessing task performance during distinct respiratory phases (inspiratory phase vs. expirator...