Breathe to be vigilant: disentangling the relationship between respiration and vigilant attention. KU Leuven
Many activities in our everyday life require vigilant attention, meaning the ability to sustain attention to monotonous, unchallenging tasks such as driving on a seemingly deserted highway. It is easy to imagine how getting distracted in such situations can have serious consequences. A promising powerful modulator of vigilant attention is respiration. Nevertheless, the relation between respiration and vigilant attention has long been disregarded ...