HEART RATE CORRELATES OF INSIGHT.
Abstract
The heart rate (HR) was found to be inadequate as an isolated intersubject correlate of mental work. It does not appear that reliable specific patterns will be found as long as respiration effects force use of procedures which cause uncertainity of HR-change identification. A possible answer to this problem would be a recording method by which respiration changes were used to adjust automatically for respiration effects in HR. Between the extremes of threat of physical punishment and what is essentially a vigilance task, there might be other situations in which insight leads to reliable HR patterns. Until effects of respiration on HR are eliminated, the possibility is small of finding reliable patterns more subtle than a large step function. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 1964
- Accession Number
- AD0600554
Entities
People
- R. A. Avner
Organizations
- University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign