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Slow yoga breathing improves mental load in working memory performance and cardiac activity among yoga practitioners
This study investigated the immediate effect of slow yoga breathing (SYB) at 6 breaths per minute (bpm) simultaneously on working memory performance and heart rate variability (HRV) in yoga practitioners. A total of 40 healthy male volunteers performed a working memory task, ‘n-back’, consisting of...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9516310/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36186291 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.968858 |
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description | This study investigated the immediate effect of slow yoga breathing (SYB) at 6 breaths per minute (bpm) simultaneously on working memory performance and heart rate variability (HRV) in yoga practitioners. A total of 40 healthy male volunteers performed a working memory task, ‘n-back’, consisting of three levels of difficulty, 0-back, 1-back, and 2-back, separately, before and after three SYB sessions on different days. The SYB sessions included alternate nostril breathing (ANB), right nostril breathing (RNB), and breath awareness (BAW). Repeated measures analysis of variance showed a significant reduction in reaction time (ms) in 2-back condition immediately after ANB (−8%), RNB (−8%) and BAW (−5%) practices. Similarly, the accuracy was improved in the 0-back condition after RNB (4%), and in the 2-back condition after ANB (6%) and RNB (6%) practices. These results suggest that SYB practice enhances cognitive abilities (8–9%) related to memory load and improves the functioning of cardiac autonomic activity, which is required for the successful completion of mental tasks.Trial registered in the Clinical Trials Registry of India (CTRI/2018/01/011132). |
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spelling | pubmed-95163102022-09-29 Slow yoga breathing improves mental load in working memory performance and cardiac activity among yoga practitioners Deepeshwar, Singh Budhi, Rana Bal Front Psychol Psychology This study investigated the immediate effect of slow yoga breathing (SYB) at 6 breaths per minute (bpm) simultaneously on working memory performance and heart rate variability (HRV) in yoga practitioners. A total of 40 healthy male volunteers performed a working memory task, ‘n-back’, consisting of three levels of difficulty, 0-back, 1-back, and 2-back, separately, before and after three SYB sessions on different days. The SYB sessions included alternate nostril breathing (ANB), right nostril breathing (RNB), and breath awareness (BAW). Repeated measures analysis of variance showed a significant reduction in reaction time (ms) in 2-back condition immediately after ANB (−8%), RNB (−8%) and BAW (−5%) practices. Similarly, the accuracy was improved in the 0-back condition after RNB (4%), and in the 2-back condition after ANB (6%) and RNB (6%) practices. These results suggest that SYB practice enhances cognitive abilities (8–9%) related to memory load and improves the functioning of cardiac autonomic activity, which is required for the successful completion of mental tasks.Trial registered in the Clinical Trials Registry of India (CTRI/2018/01/011132). Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9516310/ /pubmed/36186291 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.968858 Text en Copyright © 2022 Deepeshwar and Budhi. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Deepeshwar, Singh Budhi, Rana Bal Slow yoga breathing improves mental load in working memory performance and cardiac activity among yoga practitioners |
title | Slow yoga breathing improves mental load in working memory performance and cardiac activity among yoga practitioners |
title_full | Slow yoga breathing improves mental load in working memory performance and cardiac activity among yoga practitioners |
title_fullStr | Slow yoga breathing improves mental load in working memory performance and cardiac activity among yoga practitioners |
title_full_unstemmed | Slow yoga breathing improves mental load in working memory performance and cardiac activity among yoga practitioners |
title_short | Slow yoga breathing improves mental load in working memory performance and cardiac activity among yoga practitioners |
title_sort | slow yoga breathing improves mental load in working memory performance and cardiac activity among yoga practitioners |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9516310/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36186291 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.968858 |
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