Along with the increased interest in and volume of social cognition research, there has been
higher awareness of a lack of agreement on the concepts and taxonomy used to study social …

Interoception refers to the representation of the internal states of an organism, and includes
the processes by which it senses, interprets, integrates, and regulates signals from within …

Emotions arise from activations of specialized neuronal populations in several parts of the
cerebral cortex, notably the anterior cingulate, insula, ventromedial prefrontal, and …

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 …

We review a recent shift in conceptions of interoception and its relationship to hierarchical
inference in the brain. The notion of interoceptive inference means that bodily states are …

How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel,
create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all …

There is increasing interest in the beneficial clinical effects of mindfulness-based
interventions (MBIs). Research has demonstrated their efficacy in a wide range of …

Intuition suggests that perception follows sensation and therefore bodily feelings originate in
the body. However, recent evidence goes against this logic: interoceptive experience may …

Interoception refers to the process by which the nervous system senses and integrates
signals originating from within the body, providing a momentary mapping of the body's …

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has a major impact on the development and social
integration of affected individuals and is the most heritable of psychiatric disorders. An …