Cognitive Failures: Relationship with Perceived Emotions, Stress, and Resting Vagally-Mediated Heart Rate Variability

Cognitive failures represent everyday task that individuals are normally capable of completing. While cognitive measured with the Failures Questionnaire can be considered a trait, psychophysiological states associated yet to fully understood. The aim this paper was investigate extent which perception experiencing in daily life is both psychological (i.e., perceived emotional valence, intensity, and stress), as well physiological vagally-mediated heart rate variability, vmHRV) variables. A total 69 participants were involved study (47 male, 22 female; Mage = 22.4 years). Participants underwent 5-min variability measurement filled out self-report variables, before completing Questionnaire, providing scores for Distractibility, Forgetfulness, False Triggering. When combining predictors together into hierarchical regression analysis, only model related Distractibility subscale found significant (unique negative predictor: resting vmHRV). Further research should whether influencing vmHRV, interventions such slow-paced breathing, may decrease distractibility.