Topic: physiological experience of time

Integration of visceral-interoceptive signals seems to underlie our physiological experience of time. To further investigate this relationship, we used the non invasive stimulation of the auricular branch of the vagus nerve (taVNS), which, as has been highlighted, has a modulatory effect on several high-level cognitive processes. The vagal system is crucial in regulating the organism's homeostasis and it has broad connections with various cortical and subcortical regions. In our study, healthy subjects were engaged in explicit and implicit temporal tasks across two separate experimental sessio