Valentin Magnon

Mind your heart to bear the weight: Cardiac interoception predicts action-related visual perception when wearing a heavy backpack.

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology October 2023 Valentin Magnon, Frédéric Dutheil, Pierre Chausse et al.

Visual perception can be modulated by the physiological potential for action. For instance, it was famously shown that a geographical slant appears steeper when wearing a heavy backpack than not wearing any. However, those results are not always replicated. In the present exploratory study, we test the hypothesis that the backpack weight's effect on perception relies on the ability of the...