= Heartbeat perception
Perception or estimation of one's heartbeat. A <Heartbeat perception>[mental tracking] score can depend on timing, <beliefs> about ordinary <heart rate> and response strategy as well as sensitivity to actual cardiac signals; such a score is not automatically a pure measure of interoceptive accuracy.<Heart-beat perception, panic somatic symptoms and anxiety sensitivity in children by Thalia C. Eley and others>[Behaviour Research and Therapy 42, 439–448; 79 children aged 8–11, mental tracking and symptom/sensitivity measures]{ref}
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