The typology of mechanisms of adaptation to the cognitive load on the variability of heart rate dynamics

While analyzing heart rate variability there were detected two types of visceral adaptation to cognitive activities: the first one is characterized by decrease of tension index (Baevskiy, 1984) and increase of heart rate variability at a cognitive load, along with increased power of regulatory effects on the heart rate; the second one is defined by higher heart rate variability, higher power of regulatory effects before the cognitive load and increase of the strain index during cognitive load in the absence of other significant changes. It is peculiar for people related to these types to possess different correlation relationships between the indices of sensory-motor reactions and heart rate variability.