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BACKGROUND: In the dedicated intensive care settings, health‑care providers need to have highertemporal cognition and sympathovagal balance to optimally deliver critical care interventions.OBJECTIVE: The objective of the study was to estimate the parameters of the temporal cognitionand autonomic function of paramedical staffs in acute health‑care settings.MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this study on 81 healthy adult paramedical personnel, temporalcognition was assessed using auditory reaction time (ART), visual reaction time (VRT), criticalflicker fusion frequency (CFFF), Stroop test (ST), and digits forward test (DFT); Autonomic functionswere assessed by heart rate (HR) and blood pressure (BP) variability, and all these outcomes wereanalyzed with their academic performance.RESULTS: Out of 81 healthy adult nonteaching technical personnel, majority was female; the meanage was 25.10 ± 3.93 years. Age and gender were not significantly related with screen times in termsof smartphone use, playing video games, or regularly using computer; academic performanceswere also not significantly related with screen times in terms of smartphone use, playing videogames, or regularly using computer. In the conventional domains, during analysis of physiologicaland psychological variables under study, there was no significant relation with screen times whencompared with HR, systolic BP, diastolic BP, mean arterial pressure, body mass index, ART, VRT,CFFF, ST, and DFT. Playing video games and regular computer use were significantly correlatedwith age, gender, AP, CFFF, ST, and DFT.CONCLUSION: This study on paramedical personnel showed a positive relation of temporal cognitionand sympathovagal autonomic balance with performing a task or function.