Naive Ducklings Show Different Cardiac Response To Hawk Than To Goose Models

Behaviour ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 74 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 101-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia G. Parker ◽  
Helmut C. Mueller
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Emotional Response ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cardiac Response ◽  
Specific Experience ◽  
Cardiac Responses

AbstractNaive mallard ducklings were exposed to overflights of a silhouette of either a hawk or a goose on one day and the other configuration on the next day. An audio record of the heart rate was recorded utilizing a small transducer. Most of the ducklings (14 of 20) showed a greater variance in heart rate in response to the hawk than to the goose (p<0.01 ). These results indicate that the ducklings without prior, specific experience can differentiate between a goose and a hawk and show a greater emotional response to the latter. This constitutes evidence for the recognition of configurational stimulus without prior, pertinent experience. The use of cardiac responses as a measure of emotionality or fear is discussed, as are the merits of various measures of changes in heart rate. We conclude that variance in heart rate is an excellent measure of emotional response to a stimulus.

The Role of the Aortic Body Chemoreceptors in the Cardiac and Respiratory Responses to Acute Hypoxia in the Anesthetized Dog

1973 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 249-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. P. Biro ◽  
J. D. Hatcher ◽  
D. B. Jennings
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Cardiac Output ◽  
Acute Hypoxia ◽  
Control Period ◽  
Indirect Evidence ◽  
Minute Volume ◽  
Significant Rise ◽  
Cardiac Response ◽  
Cardiac Responses ◽  
Respiratory Parameters

The participation of the aortic chemoreceptors in the reflex cardiac responses to acute hypoxia is suggested only by the indirect evidence of pharmacological stimulation of these receptors. In order to assess their role more directly, the response to a 15 min period of hypoxia was determined after surgical denervation of the aortic chemoreceptors (A.D.), and compared with the response of sham-operated (S.O.) dogs, anesthetized with morphine–pentobarbital. In the control period, while breathing room air, the cardiovascular and respiratory parameters measured in the A.D. animals were not different from those of the S.O. dogs. Hypoxia (partial pressure of oxygen approximately 30 mm Hg) in the S.O. dogs was associated with a statistically significant rise in the heart rate (+71 ± 7 min−1, mean ± S.E.M.) and of the cardiac output (+25 ± 10 ml kg−1 min−1). In the A.D. animals, the significantly smaller increment in heart rate (+29 ± 6 min−1) was associated with a fall of the cardiac output (−16 ± 12 ml kg−1 min−1). The hypoxia-induced changes in heart rate and cardiac output in the S.O. animals were different (p < 0.05) from those in the A.D. group. The minute volume of ventilation was significantly augmented in both groups, and to a comparable extent. These findings indicate that the aortic chemoreceptors play a significant role in the cardiac response to hypoxia, but they do not affect, to a significant extent, the respiratory response.

scholarly journals The contribution of nasal receptors to the cardiac response to diving in restrained and unrestrained redhead ducks (Aythya americana)

1986 ◽  
Vol 121 (1) ◽  
pp. 227-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Furilla ◽  
D. R. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Local Anaesthesia ◽  
Cardiac Response ◽  
Dabbling Ducks ◽  
Diving Ducks ◽  
Cardiac Responses ◽  
Aythya Americana ◽  
Dabbling Duck ◽  
Redhead Ducks ◽  
A Minor

In restrained redhead ducks, forced submergence caused heart rate to fall from 100 +/− 3 beats min-1 (mean +/− S.E.M., N = 12) to a stable underwater rate of 35 +/− 4 beats min-1 (N = 12) within 5 s after submergence. Bradycardia was unaffected by breathing oxygen before a dive, but was virtually eliminated by local anaesthesia of the narial region. In contrast, in a dabbling duck (Anas platyrhynchos) bradycardia in short dives was eliminated by breathing oxygen before a dive. In unrestrained diving, on a man-made pond, heart rate in redheads diving voluntarily (y) was related to pre-dive heart rate (x) by the equation y = 76 + 0.29 +/− 0.05x +/− 17 (r2 = 0.71). Chasing, to induce submergence, had variable effects on this relationship. Local anaesthesia of the narial region inhibited voluntary diving but heart rates in chase-induced dives after nasal blockade were significantly higher, by 10–30%, than those obtained from untreated ducks in chase-induced dives. Breathing oxygen before voluntary dives had no apparent effect on heart rate after 2–5 s submergence. Voluntary head submersion by dabbling ducks caused no change in heart rate. We conclude that nasal receptors make only a minor contribution to cardiac responses in unrestrained dives, compared with forced dives, in diving ducks. Furthermore, these results show that little can be learned about cardiac responses in free diving ducks from studies of forced dives in dabblers or divers.

scholarly journals Luminescent Flash Avoidance in the Nocturnal Crab Portunus Xantusii: I. The Effects of Luminescence and Mechanical Stimulation on Heart Rate

1990 ◽  
Vol 148 (1) ◽  
pp. 415-426
Author(s):  
MATTHEW S. GROBER
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Body Size ◽  
Mechanical Stimulation ◽  
Cardiac Activity ◽  
Sensory Stimulation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cardiac Response ◽  
Mechanical Stimuli ◽  
Sensory Stimuli ◽  
Cardiac Responses

In crabs, the ratio of the heart rate before to that after sensory stimulation (the response ratio) provides a reliable indicator of the effects of sensory stimulation on cardiac activity. The nocturnally active crab Portunus xantusii (Stimpson) exhibits rapid decreases in heart rate in response to the luminescent flashes produced by the sea pansy Renilla kollikeri (Pfeffer) and to mechanical stimulation. Crabs move away from luminescent and mechanical stimuli and this behavior is well correlated with the cardiac responses. Therefore, cardiac response ratios can be used as a reliable bioassay to determine the components of sensory stimuli that are important in eliciting behavioral responses. The similar cardiac responses to both luminescent and mechanical stimuli suggest that a single command pathway may be responsiblefor triggering startle behavior in response to a wide variety of rapid, brief and intense sensory stimuli. Heart rate also varied depending on the body size of the crab and the ambient temperature. Small crabs had faster heart rates than larger crabs, and the relationship between heart rate and body size is described by the equation: fH=794.3x−059222, where fH is heart rate in beats per minute and x is carapace length in millimeters.Heart rate increased with increasing temperature over a range of 10–22 °C, but no further increases occurred at higher temperatures. The Q10 for the range 10–20°C was 1.8.

scholarly journals Prediction of Cardiac Response to Physical Stress

1974 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-227
Author(s):  
Larry E. Long ◽  
LaVerne L. Hoag
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Physical Fitness ◽  
Prediction Model ◽  
Prediction Error ◽  
Physical Stress ◽  
Cardiac Response ◽  
Resting Heart Rate ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Cardiac Responses

This paper presents a method for predicting an individual's cardiac response to a series of fixed intensity tasks. It was determined that cardiac responses to exercise at given work loads are similar for subjects of the same sex and level of physical fitness when they are expressed in terms of resting heart rate. Using this observation as a basis, a prediction model was developed by extrapolating from emperically derived heart rate patterns. The prediction error was no more than five to ten percent of the actual heart rate value in ninety percent of the predictions.

scholarly journals Cardiac response and anxiety levels in psychopathic murderers

2009 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 214-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio de Pádua Serafim ◽  
Daniel Martins de Barros ◽  
André Valim ◽  
Clarice Gorenstein
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Emotional Response ◽  
Anxiety Level ◽  
Cardiac Response ◽  
Rate Variation ◽  
Heart Rate Variation ◽  
Psychopathy Checklist ◽  
Maximum Security ◽  
Psychopathy Checklist Revised ◽  
Anxiety Levels

OBJECTIVE: To compare the emotional response and level of anxiety of psychopathic murderers, non-psychopathic murderers, and nonpsychopathic non-criminals. METHOD: 110 male individuals aged over 18 years were divided into three groups: psychopathic murderers (n = 38); non-psychopathic murderers (n = 37) serving sentences for murder convictions in Maximum Security Prisons in the State of Sao Paulo; and non-criminal, non-psychopathic individuals (n = 35) according to the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised. The emotional response of subjects was assessed by heart rate variation and anxiety level (State-Trait Anxiety Inventory) after viewing standardized pictures depicting pleasant, unpleasant and neutral content from the International Affective Picture System. RESULTS: Psychopathic murderers presented lower anxiety levels and smaller heart rate variations when exposed to pleasant and unpleasant stimuli than nonpsychopathic murderers or non-psychopathic non-criminals. The results also demonstrated that the higher the score for factor 1 on the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised, the lower the heart rate variation and anxiety level. CONCLUSION: The results suggest that psychopathic murderers do not present variation in emotional response to different visual stimuli. Although the non-psychopathic murderers had committed the same type of crime as the psychopathic murderers, the former tended to respond with a higher level of anxiety and heart rate variation.

Forced and voluntary diving in ducks: cardiovascular adjustments and their control

1988 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Jones ◽  
R. A. Furilla ◽  
M. R. A. Heieis ◽  
G. R. J. Gabbott ◽  
F. M. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Blood Flow ◽  
Cardiovascular Responses ◽  
Cardiac Response ◽  
Vagal Activity ◽  
Diving Ducks ◽  
Cardiac Responses ◽  
Hind Limbs ◽  
Dabbling Duck ◽  
Arterial Chemoreceptor

Diving ducks submerge voluntarily for less than 1 min yet, in forced dives in the laboratory, redhead ducks can endure at least 8 min underwater. This is much longer than a dabbling duck of the same body mass can endure and is a result of the quicker onset of oxygen-conserving cardiovascular responses in divers. Oxygen conservation during forced dives is indicated by a profound bradycardia as blood flow is restricted to cerebral and central cardiovascular areas. In voluntary dives, on the other hand, heart rate is frequently above resting rates, and blood flow is preferentially directed to the working muscles of the hind limbs. Profound bradycardia only occurs in unrestrained ducks when they are trapped underwater. Since leg movements cease within 30 s after ducks are trapped, blood flow must at that time be directed away from the working muscles, as in the "classical" oxygen-conserving dive response. Cardiovascular adjustments to forced diving are caused by stimulation of nasal receptors in diving ducks. In dabblers, arterial chemoreceptor stimulation is crucial to the response, although an intact barostatic system may be necessary for development of profound bradycardia. Baroreceptors are essential for the cardiac response observed when dabblers are trained to dive for food, although neither baro-, chemo-, nor naso-receptors appear to have much to do with the cardiac adjustments to voluntary submergence in diving ducks. Nevertheless, in divers, cardiac adjustments to dabbling and forced, voluntary, and trapped dives are linearly related on a plot of dive (trapped) against the logarithm of predive (pretrap) heart rate. This relationship is due to a similar increase in vagal activity, of some 50% of maximum, in all types of diving manoeuvers. Phychogenic factors, long thought to be important in cardiac responses to forced diving, would appear to underpin this relationship.

Emotional Experiences of Students in the Classroom

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wondimu Ahmed ◽  
Greetje van der Werf ◽  
Alexander Minnaert
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Emotional Response ◽  
Task Difficulty ◽  
Physiological Reactivity ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Heart Rate Monitoring ◽  
Coding Scheme ◽  
Stimulated Recall ◽  
Response Systems ◽  
The Relationship

In this article, we report on a multimethod qualitative study designed to explore the emotional experiences of students in the classroom setting. The purpose of the study was threefold: (1) to explore the correspondence among nonverbal expressions, subjective feelings, and physiological reactivity (heart rate changes) of students’ emotions in the classroom; (2) to examine the relationship between students’ emotions and their competence and value appraisals; and (3) to determine whether task difficulty matters in emotional experiences. We used multiple methods (nonverbal coding scheme, video stimulated recall interview, and heart rate monitoring) to acquire data on emotional experiences of six grade 7 students. Concurrent correspondence analyses of the emotional indices revealed that coherence between emotional response systems, although apparent, is not conclusive. The relationship between appraisals and emotions was evident, but the effect of task difficulty appears to be minimal.

scholarly journals Effect of congruence between sound and video on heart rate and self-reported measures of emotion

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 621-631
Author(s):  
Sebastián Calderón ◽  
Raúl Rincón ◽  
Andrés Araujo ◽  
Carlos Gantiva
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Emotional Response ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Subjective Perception ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
Bimodal Stimulus ◽  
Emotional Dimension ◽  
Valence And Arousal

Most studies of emotional responses have used unimodal stimuli (e.g., pictures or sounds) or congruent bimodal stimuli (e.g., video clips with sound), but little is known about the emotional response to incongruent bimodal stimuli. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of congruence between auditory and visual bimodal stimuli on heart rate and self-reported measures of emotional dimension, valence and arousal. Subjects listened to pleasant, neutral, and unpleasant sounds, accompanied by videos with and without content congruence, and heart rate was recorded. Dimensions of valence and arousal of each bimodal stimulus were then self-reported. The results showed that heart rate depends of the valence of the sounds but not of the congruence of the bimodal stimuli. The valence and arousal scores changed depending on the congruence of the bimodal stimuli. These results suggest that the congruence of bimodal stimuli affects the subjective perception of emotion.

scholarly journals The Cardiac Sympathetic Nerve Activity in the Elderly Is Attenuated in the Right Lateral Decubitus Position

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 233372141770807 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konosuke Sasaki ◽  
Mayu Haga ◽  
Sarina Bao ◽  
Haruka Sato ◽  
Yoshikatsu Saiki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Sympathetic Nerve ◽  
Sympathetic Nerve Activity ◽  
Lateral Decubitus Position ◽  
The Other ◽  
Elderly Adults ◽  
Nerve Activity ◽  
Left Lateral Decubitus Position ◽  
Lateral Decubitus ◽  
The Right

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of the supine, left lateral decubitus, and right lateral decubitus positions on autonomic nervous activity in elderly adults by using spectral analysis of heart rate variability (HRV). Method: Forty-five adults aged 73.6 ± 5.7 years were enrolled. After lying in the supine position, all participants moved to the lateral decubitus positions in a random order and maintained the positions for 10 min, while electrocardiographic data were recorded to measure HRV. Results: The lowest heart rate continued for 10 min when participants were in the left lateral decubitus position compared with the other two positions ( p < .001), while the HRV indexes remained unchanged. The low-frequency HRV to high-frequency HRV ratio (LF/HF) for the right lateral decubitus position was significantly lower than that for the other positions. Discussion: The right lateral decubitus position may attenuate sympathetic nerve activity in elderly adults.

scholarly journals The Influence ofNrf2on Cardiac Responses to Environmental Stressors

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reuben Howden ◽  
Eva Gougian ◽  
Marcus Lawrence ◽  
Samantha Cividanes ◽  
Wesley Gladwell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Heart Rate Variability ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Therapeutic Strategies ◽  
Environmental Stressors ◽  
Total Power ◽  
Airborne Pollutants ◽  
Cardiac Responses

Nrf2protects the lung from adverse responses to oxidants, including 100% oxygen (hyperoxia) and airborne pollutants like particulate matter (PM) exposure, but the role ofNrf2on heart rate (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV) responses is not known. We hypothesized that genetic disruption ofNrf2would exacerbate murine HR and HRV responses to severe hyperoxia or moderate PM exposures.Nrf2-/-andNrf2+/+mice were instrumented for continuous ECG recording to calculate HR and HRV (low frequency (LF), high frequency (HF), and total power (TP)). Mice were then either exposed to hyperoxia for up to 72 hrs or aspirated with ultrafine PM (UF-PM). Compared to respective controls, UF-PM induced significantly greater effects on HR (P<0.001) and HF HRV (P<0.001) inNrf2-/-mice compared toNrf2+/+mice.Nrf2-/-mice tolerated hyperoxia significantly less thanNrf2+/+mice (~22 hrs;P<0.001). Reductions in HR, LF, HF, and TP HRV were also significantly greater inNrf2-/-compared toNrf2+/+mice (P<0.01). Results demonstrate thatNrf2deletion increases susceptibility to change in HR and HRV responses to environmental stressors and suggest potential therapeutic strategies to prevent cardiovascular alterations.

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