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Further evidence for embodied cognition: The link between spontaneous respiratory oscillations and number processing.

PLoS One June 26, 2026 Sebastiano Cinetto, Hurcan Andrei Senyuva, Marco Zorzi et al.

Embodied accounts of cognition propose that bodily states shape mental representations. We test this proposal in numerical cognition by asking whether spontaneous respiration biases random number generation (RNG). Building on prior work by Belli and collaborators (2021), we adopt a self-paced handwriting RNG paradigm that preserves the continuous, cyclic nature of breathing. Healthy adults will...