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Body-sensitive people are tuned into their heart and their stomach

Body-sensitive people are tuned into their heart and their stomach | Science News | Scoop.it

Herbert and her team concluded: "'Interoceptive awareness' as assessed by heartbeat perception seems to represent a better ability to focus, to perceive and to process internal bodily information across visceral modalities, such as gastric signals, with cardiac and gastric signals both representing bodily cues that show perceivable activity changes during situations of everyday life."

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Body-specific representations of spatial location

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The body specificity hypothesis (Casasanto, 2009) posits that the way in which people interact with the world affects their mental representation of information. For instance, right- versus left-handedness affects the mental representation of affective valence, with right-handers categorically associating good with rightward areas and bad with leftward areas, and left-handers doing the opposite.
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Our rational thinking is affected by bodily quirks

Our rational thinking is affected by bodily quirks | Science News | Scoop.it
Washington, Feb 15 (IANS) We are actually kidding ourselves when we take pride in our rational thinking - who knows when it may be hijacked by quirks.
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Transfer Data Through The Human Body To Your Devices

Transfer Data Through The Human Body To Your Devices | Science News | Scoop.it
Ericsson aims to turn our anatomy into a USB key -- a bridge between gadgets with its 'Connected Me' technology.

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A Gripping Tale: Each Flick of a Finger Takes the Work of Five

A Gripping Tale: Each Flick of a Finger Takes the Work of Five | Science News | Scoop.it
Scientists who study the human hand have determined that the appearance of digital independence is deeply deceptive.
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Different bodies, different minds

Different bodies, different minds | Science News | Scoop.it

Cognitive scientist Daniel Casasanto, of The New School for Social Research, has shown that quirks of our bodies affect our thinking in predictable ways, across many different areas of life, from language to mental imagery to emotion.

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