Studies // Cited work
Heart rate variability and cardiac vagal tone in psychophysiological research: Recommendations for experiment planning, data analysis, and data reporting
Laborde, S., Mosley, E., & Thayer, J. F. (2017). Heart rate variability and cardiac vagal tone in psychophysiological research: Recommendations for experiment planning, data analysis, and data reporting.
Level D Review doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00213
What this study supports
Supports the claims that HRV indexes cardiac vagal tone and that its findings are easily misconstrued without careful design, analysis and reporting. Methods guidance, not evidence about emotion categories.
- Who was studied
- Not applicable: methodological recommendations for heart rate variability research.
- Design
- Review
- Level of evidence
- Cross-sectional, observational, qualitative work and narrative reviews.
Claims that rest on it
Each claim states what the site asserts, at what strength, and with what caveat.
TechnicalLevel DConfidence HIGH
Heart rate variability can index cardiac vagal tone, but its findings are easily misconstrued without careful experimental design, analysis and reporting, and electrodermal activity likewise requires methodological care.
- Scope
- Psychophysiological research methods.
- Caveat
- Methods guidance, not evidence that any signal corresponds to a specific emotion.
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