Topic: embodied movement

Recent studies in rodents suggest the potential functions of bodily feedback signals to alleviate fear, shedding light on new forms of non-invasive interventions. First, learning proactive coping actions to avoid threats leads to persistent fear-alleviating effects relative to passive extinction procedures (Cain and LeDoux 2007), suggesting that bodily actions could facilitate resilience to learned threats. Second, physiological bodily responses under threat, such as changes in respiration and heart rate, serve as feedback signals to regulate fear (Karalis & Sirota, Nat Comm, 2022; Hsueh e