CEMIC - CONICET   26185
CENTRO DE EDUCACION MEDICA E INVESTIGACIONES CLINICAS "NORBERTO QUIRNO"
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
ANALYSIS OF HEART RATE TRAJECTORIES IN THE STUDY OF THE EMOTIONAL PROCESSING OF CHILDREN
Autor/es:
RAMÍREZ, VERÓNICA ADRIANA; LIPINA, SEBASTIÁN JAVIER; RUETTI, ELIANA
Lugar:
Villa Carlos Paz - Córdoba
Reunión:
Congreso; XXIV Congreso de la Sociedad Argentina de Investigación en Neurociencias; 2019
Institución organizadora:
Sociedad Argentina de Investigación en Neurociencias
Resumen:
Introduction. Emotions are defined as complex phenomena of short duration, determined by changes in different levels of organization (i.e., physiological, cognitive and behavioral) that occur before significant stimuli or during cognitive processes. Heart rate (HR) is a robust measure of the emotional reactivity involved in the evaluation of these processes. There are few studies that compare performance profiles at different levels of organization to emotional tasks in children. Objective. Analyze the trajectories of the HR during Stroop-type task with and without emotional valence in children. Methodology. A sample of 40 children from 4-8 years old was selected, evaluated with traditional version of the Stroop-type task or an adapted positive emotional version, and the HR was recorded throughout it. The variable of interest was the average of the HR in each trial of the task. Results. A higher HR was found in the children evaluated with the positive emotional condition, compared to the children evaluated with the traditional version of the task. In both groups, the HR presented a gradual increase throughout the trials. Conclusions. The present study incorporates an autonomous variable related to the cognitive performance of the children. The valence task is associated with different patterns of HR trajectory, which suggests the importance of including this level of organization to analyze the development of emotional processing in children of different ages.