Sensing internal bodily signals, or interoception, is fundamental to maintain life. However,
interoception should not be viewed as an isolated domain, as it interacts with exteroception …

Animals have sophisticated mechanisms for coping with danger. Freezing is a unique state
that, upon threat detection, allows evidence to be gathered, response possibilities to be …

The processes underwriting the acquisition of culture remain unclear. How are shared
habits, norms, and expectations learned and maintained with precision and reliability across …

The positive-negative axis of emotional valence has long been recognized as fundamental
to adaptive behavior, but its origin and underlying function have largely eluded formal …

To survive, organisms must effectively respond to the challenge of maintaining their
physiological integrity in the face of an ever-changing environment. Preserving this …

Predictive processing (PP) is now a prominent theoretical framework in the philosophy of
mind and cognitive science. This review focuses on PP research with a relatively …

Even though humans are mostly not aware of their heartbeats, several heartbeat-related
effects have been reported to influence conscious perception. It is not clear whether these …

The demands of both mental and physical activity are integrated with the dynamic control of
internal bodily states. The set of neural interactions that supports autonomic regulation …

Abstract SKORA, LI, JJA LIVERMORE and K. Roelofs. The functional role of cardiac activity
in perception and action. NEUROSCI BIOBEHAV REV X (X) XXX-XXX, 2022. Patterns of …

Recent studies from the field of interoception have highlighted the link between bodily and
neural rhythms during action, perception, and cognition. The mechanisms underlying …