Study Reveals Second Pathway to Feeling Your Heartbeat

Monday, November 2, 2009 - 14:35 in Health & Medicine

A new study suggests that the inner sense of our cardiovascular state, our "interoceptive awareness" of the heart pounding, relies on two independent pathways, contrary to what had been asserted by prominent researchers. The University of Iowa study was published online this week in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

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