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Following your heart

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A finding now suggests that the brain's response to heartbeats is influential in guiding reported visual experience, such that the ability to accurately report the presence or absence of a visual target is influenced by the brain's heartbeat-evoked activity.

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Figure 1: Overlap of the results from Park et al.3 with the default mode network.

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  1. Joel S. Winston and Geraint Rees are at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, London, UK.,

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