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HR

HR HR means heart rate.

HR means heart rate. In this psychology context, short-term changes in heart rate are used to track how a person responds to stimuli, with brief slowing linked to orienting and attention to moderate or novel events, and speeding up linked to defensive responding to intense or aversive events.

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Drafting source: Yap Sun Sun; Ramseyer Fabian T.; Fachner Jörg; Maidhof Clemens; Tschacher Wolfgang; Tucek Gerhard. It takes time to synchronize: the emergence of dyadic heart-rate synchrony during music therapy in neurorehabilitation. 2026; DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1629778; article XML SHA-256 aa86842480ae58039d597e8510f88a06292d55cbf548d18e9e25ef5fad6b3959. “It takes time to synchronize: the emergence of dyadic heart-rate synchrony during music therapy in neurorehabilitation” (10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1629778).
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