Converging evidence
Martin Wiener, PhD, assistant professor, George Mason University, Fairfax, Va., said both papers “provide converging evidence on the role of the heart in our perception of time.”
Together, “the results share that our sense of time – that is, our incoming sensory perception of the present ‘moment’ – is adjusted or ‘gated’ by both our HR and cardiac phase,” said Dr. Wiener, executive director of the Timing Research Forum.
The studies “provide a link between the body and the brain, in terms of our perception, and that we cannot study one without the context of the other,” said Dr. Wiener, who was not involved with the current study.
“All of this opens up a new avenue of research, and so it is very exciting to see,” Dr. Wiener stated.
No source of funding was listed for the study by Ms. Sadeghi and coauthors. They declared no relevant financial relationships.
Dr. Arslanova and coauthors declared no competing interests. Senior author Manos Tsakiris, PhD, receives funding from the European Research Council Consolidator Grant. Dr. Wiener declared no relevant financial relationships.
A version of this article first appeared on Medscape.com.