ArticleeLife2021
Respiration aligns perception with neural excitability.
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- From Lung to Brain: Respiration Modulates Neural and Mental Activity.Neuroscience bulletin · 2023Pooled it
- Inconclusive evidence that breathing shapes pupil dynamics in humans: a systematic review.Pflugers Archiv : European journal of physiology · 2023Pooled it
- Robust circular cluster-based statistics for respiration-brain coupling.PLoS computational biology · 2026Article
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- The Mind From Within: Visceral Roots of Human Cognition.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Review
- Dexterous single sniffs for ethological active olfaction.Science advances · 2026Article
- Spontaneous perceptual reversals are accompanied by systematic changes in pupil size but not respiration phase.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- Respiratory phase alignment across memory encoding and retrieval improves task efficiency.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Respiration as a dynamic modulator of sensory sampling.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Respiratory-Limbic Coupling via a Thalamic Circuit Alleviates Anxiety.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
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- From Breath to Behavior: Respiratory Features Predict Visual Detection Performance.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Disentangling Respiratory Phase-Dependent and Phase-Independent Components of Anticipatory Cardiac Deceleration.Psychophysiology · 2026Article
- Respiratory and Cardiac Phase Coupling With Voluntary Actions Across Motor Tasks.Psychophysiology · 2026Article
- Toward a Fuller Integration of Respiratory Rhythms Into Research on Infant Vocal and Motor Development.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Review
- Respiration Shapes the Neural Dynamics of Successful Remembering in Humans.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Dynamic Respiration-Neural Coupling in Substantia Nigra across Sleep and Anesthesia.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- The Rhythmic Embodied Perception Framework of breath, brain, and perception.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2026Review
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Abstract
Recent studies from the field of interoception have highlighted the link between bodily and neural rhythms during action, perception, and cognition. The mechanisms underlying functional body-brain coupling, however, are poorly understood, as are the ways in which they modulate behavior. We acquired respiration and human magnetoencephalography data from a near-threshold spatial detection task to investigate the trivariate relationship between respiration, neural excitability, and performance. Respiration was found to significantly modulate perceptual sensitivity as well as posterior alpha power (8-13 Hz), a well-established proxy of cortical excitability. In turn, alpha suppression prior to detected versus undetected targets underscored the behavioral benefits of heightened excitability. Notably, respiration-locked excitability changes were maximized at a respiration phase lag of around -30° and thus temporally preceded performance changes. In line with interoceptive inference accounts, these results suggest that respiration actively aligns sampling of sensory information with transient cycles of heightened excitability to facilitate performance.
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