Vagal regulation during bottle feeding i
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A. Lourdes Portales; Stephen W. Porges; Jane A. Doussard-Roosevelt; Mehnur Abedi
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Article
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1997
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The gustatory-vagal hypothesis proposes that gustatory stimulation elicits a coordinated vagal response manifested as an increase in ingestive behaviors (e.g., sucking) and a decrease in nucleus ambiguus vagal tone measured by decreases in the amplitude of respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA). The cur