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Emotional processing and emotional memory are modulated by interoceptive awareness

Pollatos, Olga, Schandry, Rainer·2008·Cognition & Emotion

Abstract

The ability to perceive interoceptive signals plays a central role in many theories of emotions. The present study was designed to investigate the relationship between interoceptive awareness and the conscious processing and memory of emotional information. Heart-rate changes were recorded during baseline and affective picture presentation in two groups of participants, differing in cardiac awareness. After a 60-minute break, a recognition task was conducted. Statistical analyses revealed significantly stronger heart-rate deceleration to pleasant and unpleasant stimuli in participants with high interoceptive awareness. In the subsequent picture recognition task, participants with high interoceptive awareness demonstrated a superior recall of pleasant and unpleasant pictures, while no differences were found between interoceptive awareness groups for pictures of neutral content. Our results demonstrate a strong relationship between the perception of cardiac signals and both the processing as well as the recognition of emotional stimuli. High interoceptive awareness was related to increased physiological responses to emotional stimuli and is therefore an important mediating variable when investigating cardiovascular reactivity both in healthy subjects as well as in clinical populations.

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Authors
Pollatos, O., & Schandry, R.
Affiliations
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (DE)
Corresponding author
Pollatos, Olga
Venue
Cognition & Emotion
Published
2008-02
Volume
22
Issue
2
Pages
272-287
ISSN
  • 0269-9931 (ISSN-L)
  • 1464-0600
OpenAlex
W2113434486
Cited by
125
References
68
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 10 · 2012: 3
FWCI
0.94
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Cognition & Emotion (publishedVersion)
  • publish.UP (University of Potsdam) (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
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Deception detection and forensic psychology
Keywords
interoceptive awareness, emotional memory, emotional processing, heart rate, cardiovascular reactivity, emotional stimuli, physiological responses to emotion

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