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

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.