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 …

Continuous interactions between physiological body–brain rhythms influence how
individuals act, perceive, and evaluate their environment. Despite increasing interest, the …

Respiratory rhythms sustain biological life, governing the homeostatic exchange of oxygen
and carbon dioxide. Until recently, however, the influence of breathing on the brain has …

Mindfulness is considered an important factor of an individual's subjective well-being.
Consequently, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has investigated approaches that …

Interoception includes signals from inner organs and thin afferents in the skin, providing
information about the body's physiological state. However, the functional relationships …

Body ownership (the feeling that one's body belongs to oneself) is commonly studied with
Rubber hand illusion (RHI) paradigm that allows inducing a temporary illusory feeling of …

Breathing is peculiar among autonomic functions through several characteristics. It
generates a very rich afferent traffic from an array of structures belonging to the respiratory …

Abstract While the Sense of Agency (SoA)–the experience of controlling actions–is linked to
motoric processes, the effects of non-motoric cues remain uncertain. We performed a …

Humans are unique in their ability to think about themselves and carry a more or less clear
notion of who they are in their mind. Here we review recent evidence suggesting that the …

We capitalized on the respiratory bodily illusion that we discovered in a previous study and
called 'Embreathment'where we showed that breathing modulates corporeal awareness in …