The Relationship Between Interoception and Metacognition: A Pilot Study
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Abstract. Recently, Garfinkel and Critchley (2013) proposed to distinguish between three facets of interoception: interoceptive sensibility, interoceptive accuracy, and interoceptive awareness. This pilot study investigated how these facets interrelate to each other and whether interoceptive awareness is related to the metacognitive awareness of memory performance. A sample of 24 healthy students completed a heartbeat perception task (HPT) and a memory task. Judgments of confidence were requested for each task. Participants filled in questionnaires assessing interoceptive sensibility, depression, anxiety, and socio-demographic characteristics. The three facets of interoception were found to be uncorrelated and interoceptive awareness was not related to metacognitive awareness of memory performance. Whereas memory performance was significantly related to metamemory awareness, interoceptive accuracy (HPT) and interoceptive awareness were not correlated. Results suggest that future research on interoception should assess all facets of interoception in order to capture the multifaceted quality of the construct.
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Weak or non-significant correlations have been found between self-reported interoceptive attention and objectively measured interoceptive accuracy.
“Further, while weak or non-significant correlations have been found between self-reported interoceptive attention and objectively measured interoceptive accuracy (Ferentzi, Drew, et al., 2018; Garfinkel et al., 2016, 2015; Meessen et al., 2016; Murphy et al., 2019; Whitehead et al., 1977)”
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- Authors
- Meessen, J., Mainz, V., Gauggel, S., Volz-Sidiropoulou, E., Sütterlin, S., & Forkmann, T.
- Affiliations
- Universitätsklinikum Aachen (DE)
- Institute of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University Hospital of RWTH Aachen University, Germany
- Oslo University Hospital (NO)
- Venue
- Journal of Psychophysiology
- Publisher
- Hogrefe Publishing Group
- Published
- 2016-04
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 76-86
- ISSN
- 0269-8803 (ISSN-L)
- 2151-2124
- OpenAlex
- W2473313797
- Cited by
- 37
- References
- 61
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 4
- FWCI
- 3.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Psychophysiology (publishedVersion)
- RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen) (submittedVersion)
- 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
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
- Keywords
- interoception, interoceptive sensibility, interoceptive accuracy, interoceptive awareness, metacognition, metamemory, memory confidence judgments, heartbeat perception, depression, anxiety
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