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Interoceptive inference, emotion, and the embodied self

Anil K. Seth
- 01 Nov 2013 - 
- Vol. 17, Iss: 11, pp 565-573
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A predictive, inferential perspective on interoception: 'interoceptive inference' conceives of subjective feeling states (emotions) as arising from actively-inferred generative (predictive) models of the causes of interoceptive afferents.
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This article is published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.The article was published on 2013-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1104 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Perspective (graphical) & Cognition.

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Commentary: Alexithymia, not autism, is associated with impaired interoception

TL;DR: A new study published in Cortex concludes that alexithymia, not autism, is related to interoceptive impairment (Shah et al., 2016), which supports the notion that an ASD diagnosis reflects a clustering of etiologically distinct symptoms.
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Computerized exposure therapy for Spider Phobia: Effects of cardiac timing and interoceptive ability on subjective and behavioral outcomes

TL;DR: The reduction in the subjective expression of fear/phobia is facilitated by “bottom-up” afferent signals, whereas improvement in the behavioral expression is further dependent on “top-down” representation of self-related physiology (heart rhythm).
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A problem of scope for the free energy principle as a theory of cognition

TL;DR: The free energy principle as a theory of cognition has been criticised by as discussed by the authors, who argue that it is possible to reason about a specific computational architecture of a cognitive system and that all adaptive behavior is driven by the free-energy principle and that cognition is not ubiquitous.
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Sad faces increase the heartbeat-associated interoceptive information flow within the salience network: a MEG study

TL;DR: The Granger causality analysis provides the first evidence for the increased flow of heartbeat information from the RAI to the RdACC during sad face perception, and it is shown that this HER modulation effect was time-locked to heartbeats.
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I see neither your Fear, nor your Sadness - Interoception in adolescents.

TL;DR: Results indicated high sensitivity to negative affect, as well as low accuracy in the recognition of fear and sadness among adolescents high in IAC, reflected by amplitude modulations in the N170 and the P300 ERP components.
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