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Physiol Behav 2022 Jun 27:113895. Epub 2022 Jun 27.

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Electronic address:

Background: Interoception is the sense of one's internal body and emotional state; it plays a critical role in guiding self-regulatory behaviors. Physical activity (PA) can support interoceptive processes, but limited research has examined the association in children. This study explored the relations among parent-reported PA and several interoceptive domains in children aged 3- to 10-years old. Read More

Conscious Cogn 2022 07 28;102:103358. Epub 2022 May 28.

Department of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy; Cognitive Neuropsychology Centre, ASST "Grande Ospedale Metropolitano" Niguarda, Milano, Italy; NeuroMi, Milan Centre for Neuroscience, Milan, Italy. Electronic address:

The way we perceive signals coming from the inside of the body (i.e., interoception) may influence the processing of information related to the self. Read More

Front Neurosci 2022 9;16:838055. Epub 2022 May 9.

Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Faculty of Engineering, Computer Science and Psychology, Institute of Psychology and Education, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.

Recent studies showed promising short-term effects of heartbeat perception training on interoceptive abilities. Research on the effects of heartbeat perception training on interoceptive abilities over time is sparse. Therefore, the aim of this study was to examine the short-term effects and the effects of a 3-week heartbeat perception training over time on interoceptive abilities, namely, cardiac interoceptive accuracy (IAc) and interoceptive sensibility (IS). Read More

J Affect Disord 2022 08 21;311:239-246. Epub 2022 May 21.

Department of Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy. Electronic address:

Background: During pregnancy women experience rapid and unique changes in body weight, shape and size over a relatively short time period. While research focused on the role of external bodily modifications during pregnancy, research on internal bodily variations is missing.

Methods: In a longitudinal study, we recruited healthy pregnant women and measured whether and how depressive symptoms, body image dissatisfaction and the subjective tendency to focus on one's own internal bodily sensations, i. Read More

Front Psychiatry 2022 22;13:833423. Epub 2022 Apr 22.

Department of Clinical Psychology, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany.

Background: Previous studies have shown dysfunctional emotion processing in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), characterized by a hypersensitivity to negative emotions and a hyposensitivity to positive emotions. Models of emotion processing emphasize the importance of bodily sensations to the experience of emotions. Since there have been no studies on whether emotion-associated bodily sensations are changed in IBD, we investigated the experience of bodily sensations related to valence and arousal, together with their links to emotional awareness, as one domain of interoceptive sensibility relevant to emotion processing. Read More