Analysis of the Relationships Between Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and Intuitive Thinking Skills

Year 2024, Volume: 2 Issue: 48, 128 - 145

İsmet Şahin

https://doi.org/10.35343/kosbed.1548365

Abstract

Intuition is generally taken as a belief, experience, and tool for knowledge emergence, often characterized by emotional judgments, sensations or foresight and be classified into various types. Recently researchers have started to search for somatic markers for intuition using EEG and ECG. The objective of this study is to explore the correlations between measurements that serve as indicators of heart rate variability and the strength and kind of intuition based on samples self-reports. The samples are 149 students aged 19-21 at Kocaeli University. Data was collected using KYTO2935 HRV sensors, Elite HRV Bluetooth application and the Intuitive Thinking Scale. Research findings indicate correlations between intuitive thinking skills and certain sub-dimensions and specific heart rhythm indices. These correlations vary in terms of their effect sizes, but it is satisfactory to assert that certain features of ours, which are acknowledged as intuitive thinking abilities, are connected to heart rhythm indices and require more thorough investigations.

Keywords

Intuition, Intuitive Thinking, Types of Intuition, Heart Rate Variability, Heart Brain

Kalp Hızı Değişkenliği (HRV) ile Sezgisel Düşünme Becerileri Arasındaki İlişkilerin Analizi

Abstract

Sezgi, genellikle duygusal yargılar, duyumlar veya öngörü ile karakterize edilen ve çeşitli tiplerde sınıflandırılan bir inanç, deneyim ve bilgiye ulaşma aracı olarak tanımlanmaktadır. Son yıllarda araştırmacılar sezgi için somatik bazı belirteçler aramaya başladılar. Bu amaçla EEG ve EKG kullanarak, sezginin kalp ve beyin dalgalarıyla ilişkileri araştırılmaktadır. Bu çalışmanın amacı, kalp hızı değişkenliğinin göstergesi olarak hizmet eden ölçümler ile sezginin gücü ve türü arasındaki korelasyonları, örneklemin kendi beyanlarına dayanarak araştırmaktır. Örneklem, Kocaeli Üniversitesi'nde 19-21 yaşları arasındaki 149 öğrencidir. Veriler KYTO2935 HRV sensörleri, Elite HRV Bluetooth uygulaması ve Sezgisel Düşünme Ölçeği kullanılarak toplanmıştır. Araştırma bulguları, sezgisel düşünme becerileri ile belirli alt boyutlarıyla ve bazı kalp ritmi indeksleri arasında korelasyonlar olduğunu göstermektedir. Bu korelasyonlar etki büyüklükleri açısından değişmektedir, ancak sezgisel düşünme yetenekleri olarak kabul edilen belirli özelliklerimizin kalp ritmi indeksleriyle bağlantılı olduğunu ve daha kapsamlı araştırmalar gerektirdiğini ifade etmek için yeterlidir.

Keywords

Sezgi, Sezgisel Düşünme, Sezgi tipleri, Kalp Ritim Uyumu, Kalbin Beyni

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