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 recent work on the functions of interoceptive processing, by which the nervous
system anticipates, senses, and integrates signals originating from the body. We focus on …

Most research in cognitive neuroscience explores how external stimuli are processed by the
brain. However, the brain also receives input from the internal body. We discuss here how …

Current researchers mostly agree that the self consists of both bodily and non-bodily
environmental information. The neural mechanism underlying the integration of this …

The transmission of the heartbeat through the cerebral vascular system causes intracranial
pressure pulsations. We discovered that arterial pressure pulsations can directly modulate …

Although recent studies on self-consciousness emphasized the importance of bodily
processing and multisensory integration, such research has focused solely on bodily signals …

Abstract The Heartbeat Evoked Potential (HEP) has been proposed as a neurophysiological
marker of interoceptive processing. Despite its use to validate interoceptive measures and to …

The heart continuously and cyclically communicates with the brain. Beyond homeostatic
regulation and sensing, recent neuroscience research has started to shed light on brain …

Behind every human experience lies a tapestry of embodied sensations; the beating of the
heart, air filling the lungs, or the skin of the chest pulling taught with each breath are all …

Recent experimental evidence on patients with disorders of consciousness revealed that
observing brain-heart interactions helps to detect residual consciousness, even in patients …