title: Application of computer averaging techniques to the study of learned volitive heartbeat control.
abstract: Research on the acquisition of conscious cardiovascular control (Yellin 1984, 1986) utilized computer averaging of electrocardiographic (ECG) cycles to demonstrate and document precise, reliable and sustainable time-locking of heartbeat to external stimuli on demand. ECG cycles were treated as evoked responses, and successive epochs were summated, beginning with Zeitgeber-stimulus (ZS) onset, and with the duration of each epoch equaling the ZS's interstimulus interval. Cardiac synchrony was exhibited by event-modulated (time-locked) cardiac responses (EMCRs) and in average ECGs.
mesh_terms: D001676:Biofeedback, Psychology; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D008433:Mathematics; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted