Short-term cued visual stimuli recall in relation to breathing phase

In this research, we observe volunteer's ability to recall visual stimuli in relation to their breathing phase at the time of presentation of those stimuli. To assess the ability to recall visual stimuli, we have exposed volunteers to a short term cued visual recall task; a cued Brown–Peterson task. We observe that the ability to recall visual stimuli does not noticeably relate to inspiration/expiration phasing (4.2% bias), but that it more noticeably relates to volume of air in lungs measured as expansion of abdomen (10.2% bias). We propose that this observation could potentially suggest that humans are more susceptible to memorizing new stimuli when there is less air in their lungs; i.e. after they have sufficiently exhaled by sighing, yawning, or vocally expressing what's on their mind. As soon as new inhalation occurs, another fight or flight response is initiated, and their susceptibility to new information is reduced.