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This project explores the relationship between bodily arousal and fear processing, proposing a method to control fear responses through heartbeats. It aims to develop clinical tools for anxiety treatment and enhance human-machine interactions, particularly in virtual and augmented reality settings.
Imagine what might be possible if you can turn fear on and off.
In exploring the contribution of bodily arousal to emotions, we uncovered a specific mechanism whereby the brain’s processing of threatening / fear stimuli is ‘gated’ by the occurrence of heartbeats:
Fear stimuli presented when the heart has just made a beat are processed more effectively than at other times, modulating their emotional impact.
We term this effect the Cardiac Control of Fear in Brain (CCFIB).
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