Visceral perception, anhedonia, and emotion
Abstract
Few investigators have attempted to examine empirically the relationship between perception of autonomic arousal and emotional state. According to Jamesian theory, individuals who are more aware of their visceral activity should demonstrate greater affective response to emotion-laden stimuli than individuals who are not viscerally perceptive. Therefore, certain groups of 'unemotional' subjects, such as anhedonics, may report fewer or less intense emotional experiences due to an attenuation or lack of autonomic feedback. Results from studies by Katkin (Psychophysiology, 22, (1985) 125-137) suggest that there is a relationship between induced sympathetic arousal, the perception of that arousal, and the self-report of emotional experience. The present study sought to expand upon these findings by comparing visceral perception (i.e. heartbeat detection) performance and a multi-component assessment of emotion in normal and anhedonic subjects. No correlation was found between anhedonia and visceral perception; however, anhedonics were significantly different from normals across several measures of heart rate, self-report, and facial expressions in response to emotion-eliciting slides, with anhedonics consistently showing emotional hypo-responsiveness. Additionally, subjects who were able to perceive their own heartbeats were found to be more facially expressive than poor perceivers.
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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 Ferguson and Katkin, 1996
Those with increased cardiac accuracy are more likely to physically express emotion.
“Where interoceptive accuracy itself is concerned, as well as leading to more intense emotional experiences, evidence suggests that those with increased cardiac accuracy are more likely to physically express emotion (Ferguson and Katkin, 1996).”
From Atypical interoception as a common risk factor for psychopathology: A review (2021) · cites this paper as Ferguson and Katkin, 1996
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)”
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- Authors
- Ferguson, M. L., & Katkin, E. S.
- Affiliations
- State University of New York (US)
- Corresponding author
- Katkin, Edward S.
- Venue
- Biological Psychology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1996-01
- Volume
- 42
- Issue
- 1-2
- Pages
- 131-145
- ISSN
- 0301-0511 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2062260930
- Cited by
- 90
- References
- 29
- Citations by year
- 2024: 2 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 0.31
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Biological Psychology (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
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Keywords
- visceral sensation, anhedonia, autonomic arousal, heartbeat detection, heart rate, facial expressions, sympathetic activation
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Affective Symptoms, Arousal, Autonomic Nervous System, Awareness, Emotions, Facial Expression, Feedback, Heart Rate, Humans, Male, Perception, Personality Inventory, Sensory Receptor Cells, Viscera
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