How your heart influences what you perceive and fear

The world isn’t just a stable thing — how we perceive it is based on our own bodies. Recent studies of the heart, in particular, have given scientists new insights into the role that the body’s most fundamental processes play in defining our experience of the world. In this fascinating piece for Nautilus, Jordana Cepelewicz meditates on some of those findings and how can they further advance our understanding of the body and the mind.