Participants' above-chance recognition of own-heart sound combined with poor metacognitive awareness suggests implicit knowledge of own heart cardiodynamics

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Azevedo, Ruben T ^a,b,c   Aglioti, Salvatore Maria ^a,b   Lenggenhager, Bigna ^a,d  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; DEVICES; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HEART SOUND; HUMAN; INTEROCEPTION; MALE; METACOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HEART; HEART SOUNDS; HUMANS; INTEROCEPTION; MALE; METACOGNITION;

EID: 84969916718     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep26545     Document Type: Article

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