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Original Article

Characteristics of attention-related body sensations. Temporal stability and associations with measures of body focus, affect, sustained attention, and heart rate variability

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Pages 179-184 | Received 03 Jul 2017, Accepted 19 Sep 2017, Published online: 23 Oct 2017

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