title: [Heart as mirror of the soul (findings and status)].
abstract: It took a period of five thousand years to proceed from the assumption of the heart being the origin of life, and "seat" of soul to today's point of view, that heart function is a mere indicator of psychophysic activation. Both advanced electronic technologies and mathematical procedures had to be developed to be able to separate the informational constituents of the cardiac signals. Even today the problems of specificity concerning the different variances and patterns are not solved at all. Many failures in research derive from overestimation of single values in correlational statistics. There are indications that, on the basis of consequent application of pattern recognition techniques, it would be possible to obtain major progress in the field of psychophysiological covariance research.
mesh_terms: D003469:Culture; D006321:Heart / Q000502:physiology; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D010551:Personality; D011584:Psychology; D011603:Psychophysiology
vernacular_title: Das Herz als Spiegel der Seele (Befund und Befinden)