A recent study conducted by a joint research team from Sweden and Poland revealed that blind people can feel their heartbeats better than sighted people, indicating that losing sight enhances a person's ability to feel signals from his internal organs.
According to the study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, the scientific team from the Karolinska Research Institute in Sweden and the Jagiellonian University in Poland asked 36 blind and the same number of sighted people to count their heartbeats without touching any part of their bodies. At the same time, the research team They measured the heartbeat of the participants in the experiment with specialized pulse oximeters, and then made a comparison between the actual number of beats and the number counted by the participants in the experiment.
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