Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
Volume 82, Issue 2, Pages 167-174Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2011.08.004
Keywords
Blood pressure; Cognitive ability; Cognitive change; Heart rate; Reactivity
Funding
- UK Medical Research Council
- Twenty-07 Steering Group [EC0503]
- MRC
- [U.1300.00.006]
- MRC [G0700704, MC_U130059821, MC_UP_A540_1021] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [MC_U130059821, G0700704B, MC_UP_A540_1021, G0700704] Funding Source: researchfish
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The relationship between cardiovascular reactions to acute mental challenge in the laboratory and cognitive ability has received scant attention. The present study examined the association between reactivity and future cognitive ability. Heart rate and blood pressure reactions to a mental stress task were measured in 1647 participants comprising three distinct age cohorts. Cognitive ability was assessed using the Alice Heim-4 test of general intelligence and choice reaction time 5 and 12 years later. High heart rate reactivity was related to higher general intelligence scores and faster choice reaction times at both follow-ups. High heart rate reactivity was also associated with a smaller decline in cognitive ability between assessments. These associations were still evident following adjustment for a wide range of potentially confounding variables. The present results are consistent with the notion that high reactivity may not always be a maladaptive response and that low or blunted reactivity may also have negative corollaries. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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