Dual-point sensory anchoring: emergent attentional coherence through embodied coupling

Attentional instability is a persistent cognitive challenge in adult life, yet most existing interventions work through top-down regulatory pathways that require sustained effort, specialized instruction, or clinical access. This paper introduces Dual-Point Sensory Anchoring (DPSA), a sensorimotor paradigm proposing a different route: attentional stability engineered from the bottom up, through the continuous confirmation of low-level tactile-proprioceptive predictions instead of through metacognitive monitoring. The paradigm is organized around four interacting constraints: simultaneous bilateral whole-body movement, deliberate gating of visual and auditory input, multi-dimensional fingertip anchoring as the primary locus of sensory prediction confirmation, and uninterrupted sensorimotor continuity. No existing paradigm, to our knowledge, assembles all four. Within the predictive processing and active inference framework, this configuration is predicted to confine prediction-error resolution preferentially to fast, short-latency somatosensory and cerebellar circuits, producing a low-entropy attentional regime that deepens across the session. Low executive demand is a predicted and empirically testable property of the configuration, not a definitional one. Eleven directional falsifiable predictions are set out, with six control conditions in two families, most of them testable with standard laboratory equipment. DPSA is presented as an as-yet unvalidated theoretical model: no empirical data are reported, and none of its mechanistic claims have yet been tested. The framework addresses a translational need for low-burden, theoretically grounded mind-body interventions supporting cognitive vitality across diverse populations and settings.