Cardiac perception and cardiac control. A review.
The evidence regarding specific cardiac perception and discrimination, and its relationship to voluntary cardiac control, is critically reviewed. Studies are considered in three sections, depending on the method used to assess cardiac perception: questionnaire assessment, discrimination procedures, and heartbeat tracking. The heartbeat tracking procedure would appear to suffer least from interpretative difficulties. Recommendations are made regarding the style of analysis used to assess heartbeat perception in such tracking tasks.
D001341:Autonomic Nervous System / Q000502:physiology*; D001676:Biofeedback, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological / Q000502:physiology; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D010465:Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D012107:Research Design; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires