Abstract
This study is concerned with the application of biofeedback training in healthy participants and its potential beneficial effects at behavioural, physiological and cognitive levels. • We aim to understand the efficacy of biofeedback training as a tool with which to increase heart rate variability (HRV) – an index of autonomic nervous system adaptability which has been associated with effective deployment of cognitive resources in relation to frontal neural dynamics. • Our design employs a controlled experimental manipulation of HRV which, combined with an acute stress induction paradigm, will allow us to determine the relationship between HRV and cognitive performance in response to allostatic pressures of stress. Abstract • Our results will inform the current understanding of biofeedback and its relationship to emotion and physiological regulation through its ability to modulate HRV activity. • The use of an acute stressor paradigm provides an ecologically valid intervention which will offer results relevant to the use of biofeedback within a therapeutic setting. • We hope to provide evidence supporting the relationship between prefrontal cortex, HRV and cognitive performance in line with the neurovisceral integration model. Conclusion
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