Open AccessYoga breathing through a particular nostril is associated with contralateral event-related potential changes
Author(s) -
Shirley Telles,
Meesha Joshi,
Prasoon Somvanshi
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international journal of yoga/international journal of yoga
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2231-2714
pISSN - 0973-6131
DOI - 10.4103/0973-6131.98220
Subject(s) - nostril , scalp , breathing , audiology , event related potential , stimulus (psychology) , psychology , oddball paradigm , medicine , n100 , evoked potential , electroencephalography , lateralization of brain function , anesthesia , neuroscience , nose , surgery , cognitive psychology
In earlier studies uninostril yoga breathing was shown to influence the activity of the cerebral hemispheres differently, based on (i) auditory evoked potentials recorded from bilateral scalp sites, and (ii) performance in hemisphere-specific tasks. But change in P300 (event-related potential generated when subjects attend to and discriminate between stimuli) from bilateral scalp sites when subjects were practicing uni- and alternate-nostril breathing are yet to be explored.