Jonathan Dönz

Insula mediates heartbeat related effects on visual consciousness.

Cortex April 2018 Roy Salomon, Roberta Ronchi, Jonathan Dönz et al.

Interoceptive signals, such as the heartbeat, are processed in a network of brain regions including the insular cortex. Recent studies have shown that such signals modulate perceptual and cognitive processing, and that they impact visual awareness. For example, visual stimuli presented synchronously to the heartbeat take longer to enter visual awareness than the same stimuli presented...