On the relationship between interoceptive awareness, emotional experience, and brain processes

O Pollatos, W Kirsch, R Schandry - Cognitive brain research, 2005 - Elsevier
The perception of visceral signals plays a crucial role in many theories of emotions. The
present study was designed to investigate the relationship between interoceptive awareness …

Interoceptive sensitivity and emotion processing: an EEG study

BM Herbert, O Pollatos, R Schandry - International Journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier
Theories of emotion consider the self-perception of visceral activity to play an important role
in emotion. This study examined the relationship between interoceptive sensitivity and both …

Heart rate response after emotional picture presentation is modulated by interoceptive awareness

O Pollatos, BM Herbert, E Matthias… - International Journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier
The perception of visceral signals plays a crucial role in many theories of emotions. The
present study was designed to investigate the relationship between interoceptive …

Neural systems connecting interoceptive awareness and feelings

O Pollatos, K Gramann, R Schandry - Human brain mapping, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Emotional processing and emotional memory are modulated by interoceptive awareness

O Pollatos, R Schandry - Cognition & emotion, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Interoception in emotional experience

S Wiens - Current opinion in neurology, 2005 - journals.lww.com
Consistent with recent theories of emotion, evidence from brain imaging supports the notion
that centrally integrated feedback from the whole body plays a role in emotional experience …

Emotion and attention interaction studied through event-related potentials

L Carretié, M Martín-Loeches, JA Hinojosa… - Journal of cognitive …, 2001 - direct.mit.edu
Several studies on hemodynamic brain activity indicate that emotional visual stimuli elicit
greater activation than neutral stimuli in attention-related areas such as the anterior …

Brain structures mediating cardiovascular arousal and interoceptive awareness

O Pollatos, R Schandry, DP Auer, C Kaufmann - Brain research, 2007 - Elsevier
Different emotions are accompanied by different bodily states and it is unclear which brain
structures are involved in both, the cerebral representation of the bodily change and the …

Heart beat interoception: a study of individual differences

R Ludwick-Rosenthal, RWJ Neufeld - International Journal of …, 1985 - Elsevier
There were two principal aims of the study:(1) to carry out preliminary evaluation of a novel
heartbeat tracking technique for objectively measuring cardiac interoception; and (2) to …

How does interoceptive awareness interact with the subjective experience of emotion? An fMRI study

Y Terasawa, H Fukushima, S Umeda - Human brain mapping, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Recent studies in cognitive neuroscience have suggested that the integration of information
about the internal bodily state and the external environment is crucial for the experience of …