Cardiac autonomic activity predicts dominance in verbal over spatial reasoning tasks: results from a preliminary study

JUAN SOLERNÓ; DANIELA PÉREZ CHADA; SALVADOR M. GUINJOAN; SANTIAGO PÉREZ LLORET; ALEJANDRO HEDDERWICK; MARÍA FLORENCIA VIDAL; DANIEL P. CARDINALI; DANIEL E. VIGO

AUTONOMIC NEUROSCIENCE.

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV

Año: 2011 vol. 167 p. 78 - 80

1566-0702

The present study sought to determine whether autonomic activity is associated with dominance in verbal over spatial reasoning tasks. A group of 19 healthy adults who performed a verbal and spatial aptitude test was evaluated. Autonomic function was assessed by means of heart rate variability analysis, before and during the tasks. The results showed that a better relative performance in verbal over spatial reasoning tasks was associated with vagal prevalence in normal subjects.