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Learning by heart—the relationship between resting vagal tone and metacognitive judgments: a pilot study

Authors: Judith Meessen, Stefan Sütterlin, Siegfried Gauggel, Thomas Forkmann

Published in: Cognitive Processing | Issue 4/2018

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Metacognitive awareness and resting vagally mediated heart rate variability (HRV) as a physiological trait marker of cognitive inhibitory control capacities are both associated with better well-being and seem to share a common neural basis. Executive functioning which is considered a prerequisite for delivering prospective metacognitive judgments has been found to be correlated with HRV. This pilot study addresses the question, whether metacognitive awareness and resting vagally mediated HRV are positively associated. A sample of 20 healthy participants was analyzed that completed a typical Judgment of Learning task after an electrocardiogram had been recorded. The root-mean-squares of successive differences were used to calculate vagally mediated HRV. Metacognitive awareness was measured by comparing the judgments of learning with the actual memory performance, yielding a deviation score. HRV was found to be positively correlated with metacognitive awareness. Results suggest that metacognitive abilities might relate to physiological trait markers of cognitive inhibitory control capacities. Further experimental studies are needed to investigate causal relations.

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Title: Learning by heart—the relationship between resting vagal tone and metacognitive judgments: a pilot study
Authors: Judith Meessen
Stefan Sütterlin
Siegfried Gauggel
Thomas Forkmann
Publication date: 23-05-2018
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Cognitive Processing / Issue 4/2018
Print ISSN: 1612-4782
Electronic ISSN: 1612-4790
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-018-0865-6

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