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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Winston, J., Rees, G. Following your heart. Nat Neurosci 17, 482–483 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3677
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