Key result
Higher cardiac interoceptive accuracy was associated with maintaining similar thought states when accelerated heart rates occurred during self-related thought states.
Why the study?
Thoughts often drift from tasks at hand due to external, cognitive, and bodily factors, but the relationship between autonomic nervous fluctuations and thought transitions, particularly regarding cardiac interoception, remains unclear.
Population
Participants completing a heartbeat counting task and an auditory attention task
Design
Other
Authors
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Subtle autonomic shifts may influence thought transitions in accurate interoceptors; leaves open whether this informs attention or interoception interventions.
Observational
Accurately detecting heart rate changes associated with specific thought states facilitates updates in conscious experience, biasing subsequent thought state transitions.
Sakuragi et al. (2025) reported an observational. Cardiac interoceptive accuracy and autonomic nervous fluctuations was evaluated on Thought state transitions. Higher cardiac interoceptive accuracy was associated with maintaining similar thought states when accelerated heart rates occurred during self-related thought states.
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