

Knowing your own heart: Distinguishing interoceptive accuracy from interoceptive awareness.
Abstract Interoception refers to the sensing of internal bodily changes. Interoception interacts with cognition and emotion, making...


Q&A: Sarah Garfinkel, consciousness researcher, on your sixth sense
Can you detect your own heartbeat? If so, you may have the power of interoception and even have a richer emotional life. Here's how to...


What the heart forgets: Cardiac timing influences memory for words and is modulated by metacognition
Abstract Mental functions are influenced by states of physiological arousal. Afferent neural activity from arterial baroreceptors at...


A Single Brain Structure May Give Winners That Extra Physical Edge
An extraordinary insula helps elite athletes better anticipate their body's upcoming feelings, improving their physical reactions All...