Heartbeat Evoked Potential | Dr. Sydney Ceruto
Heartbeat Evoked Potentials: What Your Brain’s Response to Your Own Heart Reveals About Emotional Awareness The heartbeat evoked potential is an EEG signal time-locked to the R-peak of each heartbeat that reveals how attentively your brain is processing the body it lives inside. A larger HEP means the cortex is registering each heartbeat as a meaningful signal. An attenuated HEP means the brain has deprioritized internal body input — the measurable neural signature of being cognitively present while somatically absent. ...
