Pilot Study of the Effects of Paced Breathing on Measures of Convergent and Divergent Thinking.
McKenzie B WallaceAmy N CostaBradley J FergusonMegan A CareyChloe RzeppaBriana M KilleDavid R DrysdaleBriann E SuttonBrianne H ShulerRyan P JohnsonElizabeth P KwendaJamie HadleyWhitney SnydersDavid Q BeversdorfPublished in: Cognitive and behavioral neurology : official journal of the Society for Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology (2023)
While PB modulates sympathetic activity in females, there was a lack of improvement in cognitive flexibility performance. At least for a single trial of PB, cognitive flexibility did not improve.