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1. Slow breathing impacts inter-organ dynamics modulating brain function and risk behavior

   Within the framework of body-brain interaction, deliberately modifying one's autonomic state can shape how we evaluate the world, ultimately influencing choices. … Prolonged exhalation increased risky choices by enhancing reward sensitivity and elevating cardiac parasympathetic activity.

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2. Object personification in autism: This paper will be very sad if you don’t read it

   Given that approximately half of all autistic individuals experience difficulties identifying their own emotions, the suggestion that object personification may be a feature of autism seems almost paradoxical.

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3. Lack of awareness despite complex visual processing: Evidence from event-related potentials in a case of selective metamorphopsia

   These data force us to reconsider the relationship between neural processing and visual awareness; even stimuli processed by a workspace-like cognitive system can remain inaccessible to awareness.

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