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New Scientist Live

How your heart really does shape your thoughts, memories and emotions

25 September 2019

Sarah Garfinkel will be at New Scientist Live 2019

Sarah Garfinkel is a professor in psychiatry at the University of Sussex

 

You may believe your thoughts and feelings originate solely in your brain, but what about gut instinct and heart ache? At New Scientist Live next month, neuroscientist will explain the role our bodies play in shaping our minds, revealing how signals from the heart influence our thoughts, emotions, and memories.

Sarah Garfinkel is a professor of clinical and affective neuroscience at the University of Sussex, where she researches interoception – our perceptions of internal bodily sensations – and how it influences cognition.

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