"BreaThink"
- Cognition is shaped by signals from outside and within the body. Following recent evidence of interoceptive signals modulating higher-level cognition, we examined whether breathing changes the production and perception of quantities. In Experiment 1, 22 adults verbally produced on average larger random numbers after inhaling than after exhaling. In Experiment 2, 24 further adults estimated the numerosity of dot patterns that were briefly shown after either inhaling or exhaling. Again, we obtained on average larger responses following inhalation than exhalation. These converging results extend models of situated cognition according to which higher-level cognition is sensitive to transient interoceptive states.
| Author details: | Francesco BelliORCiD, Arianna FelisattiORCiD, Martin H. FischerORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-021-06147-z |
| ISSN: | 0014-4819 |
| ISSN: | 1432-1106 |
| Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34117890 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Experimental brain research |
| Subtitle (English): | breathing affects production and perception of quantities |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| Place of publishing: | New York |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2021/06/12 |
| Publication year: | 2021 |
| Release date: | 2022/08/31 |
| Tag: | breathing; embodied cognition; interoception; numerical cognition; situated cognition |
| Volume: | 239 |
| Issue: | 8 |
| Number of pages: | 11 |
| First page: | 2489 |
| Last Page: | 2499 |
| Funding institution: | Projekt DEAL; BMBFFederal Ministry of Education & Research (BMBF); [DFG-FI-1915/8-1] |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
| DDC classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access / Hybrid Open-Access |
| License (German): |  CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
