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Neural systems connecting interoceptive awareness and feelings

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Pollatos, Olga, Gramann, Klaus, Schandry, Rainer·2007·Human Brain Mapping

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In many theories of emotions the representations of bodily responses play an important role for subjective feelings. We tested the hypothesis that the perception of bodily states is positively related to the experienced intensity of feelings as well as to the activity of first‐order and second‐order brain structures involved in the processing of feelings. Using a heartbeat perception task, subjects were separated into groups with either high or poor interoceptive awareness. During emotional picture presentation we measured high‐density EEG and used spatiotemporal current density reconstruction to identify regions involved in both interoceptive awareness and emotion processing. We observed a positive relation between interoceptive awareness and the experienced intensity of emotions. Furthermore, the P300 amplitudes to pleasant and unpleasant pictures were enhanced for subjects with high interoceptive awareness. The source reconstruction revealed that interoceptive awareness is related to an enhanced activation in both first‐order structures (insula, somatosensory cortices) and second‐order structures (anterior cingulate, prefrontal cortices). We conclude that the perception of bodily states is a crucial determinant for the processing and the subjective experience of feelings. Hum. Brain Mapping, 2007. © 2006 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

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  • Severe weight loss leads to biological adaptations of starvation that may attenuate somatic constituents of emotion and decrease intensity of anxious state.

    “Further, because severe weight loss leads to the biological adaptations of starvation, it may also attenuate the somatic constitutes of emotion (e.g., heart rate; Damasio, 1995) and thereby decrease the experienced intensity of the anxious state (Pollatos, Gramann, & Schandry, 2007).”

    From A Pilot Study of an Acceptance-Based Separated Family Treatment for Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa (2013) · cites this paper as Pollatos, Gramann, & Schandry, 2007

    The Discussion (page not provided) reports that participants with greater awareness of bodily states experienced more intense feelings while viewing pleasant and unpleasant pictures. This supports a general link between bodily perception and emotional intensity, but the paper does not establish that severe weight loss or starvation attenuates bodily responses or decreases the intensity of anxiety. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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  • Better perception of internal signals leads to more intense experience of one's own emotions.

    “In support of a role for interoception in emotion, much evidence suggests that better perception of internal signals leads to more intense experience of one’s own emotions (e.g. Ferguson and Katkin, 1996; Pollatos, Gramann, et al., 2007; Pollatos, Traut-Mattausch, et al., 2007; Wiens et al., 2000; although see Zamariola, Luminet, et al., 2019)”

    From Atypical interoception as a common risk factor for psychopathology: A review (2021) · cites this paper as Pollatos, Gramann, et al., 2007

  • Cardiac perception has been associated with multiple abilities, such as emotion processing and learning and decision-making.

    “While cardiac perception has been associated with multiple abilities, such as emotion processing (Ferguson and Katkin, 1996; Pollatos, Gramann, et al., 2007; Wiens et al., 2000; Critchley, Wiens, Rotshtein, Ohman, and Dolan, 2004), and learning and decision-making (Sokol-Hessner et al., 2014; Werner, Jung, Duschek, and Schandry, 2009)”

    From Atypical interoception as a common risk factor for psychopathology: A review (2021) · cites this paper as Pollatos, Gramann, et al., 2007

  • Individuals who are more aware of their body report more intense emotional experiences than those who are less aware.

    “Several studies have shown that individuals who are more aware of their body report more intense emotional experiences than those who are less aware (Barrett et al., 2004; Critchley et al., 2004; Pollatos et al., 2007).”

    From Mindfulness, Interoception, and the Body: A Contemporary Perspective (2019) · cites this paper as Pollatos et al., 2007

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Authors
Pollatos, O., Gramann, K., & Schandry, R.
Affiliations
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (DE)
Venue
Human Brain Mapping
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2006-05-25
Volume
28
Issue
1
Pages
9-18
ISSN
  • 1065-9471 (ISSN-L)
  • 1097-0193
OpenAlex
W2082089109
Cited by
301
References
12
Citations by year
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FWCI
5.75
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Human Brain Mapping (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Keywords
interoceptive awareness, emotional intensity, heartbeat perception, P300, emotional picture processing, insula, anterior cingulate cortex, prefrontal cortex, somatosensory cortex, subjective feelings
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Brain Mapping, Cerebral Cortex, Electrodes, Electroencephalography, Emotions, Evoked Potentials, Visual, Feedback, Female, Gyrus Cinguli, Heart Rate, Humans, Male, Neural Pathways, Perception, Photic Stimulation, Somatosensory Cortex, Visual Cortex, Prefrontal Cortex, Event-Related Potentials, P300

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