bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Sept. 8, 2022
Abstract
The
perception
of
the
internal
milieu
is
thought
to
reflect
beliefs
and
prior
knowledge
about
expected
state
body,
rather
than
only
actual
interoceptive
states.
This
study
investigated
whether
heartbeat
could
be
illusorily
distorted
towards
subjective
beliefs,
such
that
threat
expectations
suffice
induce
a
false
increased
frequency.
Participants
were
instructed
focus
on
their
cardiac
activity
report
heartbeat,
either
tapping
along
it
(Experiment
1)
or
silently
counting
2)
while
ECG
was
recorded.
While
completing
this
task,
different
cues
provided
valid
predictive
information
intensity
an
upcoming
cutaneous
stimulation
(high-
vs.
low-
pain).
Results
showed
participants
heart
rate
increase
over
anticipation
high-
low-pain
stimuli
belief
perceptually
instantiated,
as
shown
by
reports.
Importantly,
perceived
not
mirrored
real
rate.
Perceptual
modulations
absent
when
executed
same
task
but
with
exteroceptive
stimulus
3).
findings
reveal,
for
first
time,
illusion
heartbeats
elicited
expectancy
shed
new
light
processes
through
lenses
Bayesian
processes,
providing
tantalizing
insights
into
how
illusory
phenomena
may
intersect
recognition
regulation
people’s
Perspectives on Psychological Science,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Jan. 29, 2024
Metacognitive
feelings
are
affective
experiences
that
concern
the
subject’s
mental
processes
and
capacities.
Paradigmatic
examples
include
feeling
of
familiarity,
confidence,
or
tip-of-the-tongue
experience.
In
this
article,
we
advance
an
account
metacognitive
based
on
predictive-processing
framework.
The
core
tenet
predictive
processing
is
brain
a
hierarchical
hypothesis-testing
mechanism,
predicting
sensory
input
basis
prior
experience
updating
predictions
incoming
prediction
error.
According
to
proposed
account,
arise
out
process
in
which
visceral
changes
serve
as
cues
predict
error
dynamics
relating
particular
process.
expected
rate
prediction-error
reduction
corresponds
valence
at
emerging
feeling.
use
model
agent’s
situation
way
both
descriptive
directive.
Thus,
not
only
appraisal
ongoing
cognitive
performance
but
also
set
action
policies.
These
policies
span
trajectories
across
bodily
action,
interoceptive
changes,
together
transform
epistemic
landscape
within
unfold.
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
159, P. 105608 - 105608
Published: March 2, 2024
While
interoception
is
of
major
neuroscientific
interest,
its
precise
definition
and
delineation
from
exteroception
continue
to
be
debated.
Here,
we
propose
a
functional
distinction
between
based
on
computational
concepts
sensor-effector
loops.
Under
this
view,
the
classification
sensory
inputs
as
serving
or
depends
loop
they
feed
into,
for
control
either
bodily
(physiological
biochemical)
environmental
states.
We
explain
utility
perspective
by
examining
perception
skin
temperature,
one
most
challenging
cases
distinguishing
exteroception.
Specifically,
conceptualising
thermoception
inference
about
thermal
state
body
(including
skin),
which
directly
coupled
thermoregulatory
processes.
This
view
emphasises
coupling
regulation
(control)
defining
property
(inference)
connects
contemporary
theories
brain-body
interactions.
The
concept
of
agency,
or
an
individual's
sense
control
over
their
actions
and
external
events,
is
important
in
the
context
peritraumatic
dissociation,
its
cardinal
importance
post-traumatic
stress
disorder
(PTSD).
This
article
provides
a
roadmap
for
development
agency-based
therapies
future,
along
with
offering
"enactive"
perspective
on
trauma.
We
discuss
clinical
implications
this
terms
techniques
interventions
to
mitigate
symptomatology.
also
potential
use
sensorimotor
technologies,
such
as
gesture
sonification
devices,
enhance
restore
agency
during
PTSD
recovery.
Frontiers in Neuroscience,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
16
Published: March 7, 2023
Aesthetic
chills
are
an
embodied
peak
emotional
experience
induced
by
stimuli
such
as
music,
films,
and
speeches
characterized
dopaminergic
release.
The
consequences
of
in
terms
valence
arousal
still
debated
the
existing
empirical
data
is
conflicting.
In
this
study,
we
tested
effects
ChillsDB,
open-source
repository
chills-inducing
stimuli,
on
ratings
600+
participants.
We
found
that
participants
experiencing
reported
significantly
more
positive
greater
during
experience,
compared
to
who
did
not
chills.
This
suggests
may
influence
one’s
perception
affective
evaluation
context,
favor
theoretical
models
emphasizing
role
interoceptive
signals
process
decision-making.
also
interesting
pattern
participants,
which
tended
harmonize
toward
a
similar
mean
after
experiment,
though
initially
disparately
distributed.
discuss
significance
these
results
for
diagnosis
treatment
disorders
Parkinson’s,
schizophrenia,
depression.
Scientific Data,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
10(1)
Published: May 20, 2023
Abstract
We
introduce
ChillsDB
the
first
validated
database
of
audiovisual
stimuli
eliciting
aesthetic
chills
(goosebumps,
psychogenic
shivers)
in
a
US
population.
To
discover
“in
wild”,
we
devised
bottom-up,
ecologically-valid
method
consisting
searching
for
mentions
emotion’
somatic
markers
user
comments
throughout
social
media
platforms
(YouTube
and
Reddit).
successfully
captured
204
chills-eliciting
videos
three
categories:
music,
film,
speech.
then
tested
top
50
on
600+
participants
gold
standard
10
with
0.9
probability
generating
chills.
All
tools
data
are
fully
available
GitHub
researchers
to
be
able
contribute
perform
further
analysis.
Scientific Data,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
10(1)
Published: Dec. 21, 2023
Abstract
We
significantly
enriched
ChillsDB,
a
dataset
of
audiovisual
stimuli
validated
to
elicit
aesthetic
chills.
A
total
2,937
participants
from
Southern
California
were
exposed
40
stimuli,
consisting
20
(10
ChillsDB
and
10
new)
presented
either
in
or
audio-only
formats.
Questionnaires
administered
assessing
demographics,
personality
traits,
state
affect,
political
orientation.
Detailed
data
on
chills
responses
is
captured
alongside
participants’
ratings
the
stimuli.
The
combines
controlled
elicitation
using
previously
materials
with
individual
difference
measures
enable
investigation
predictors
correlates
phenomena.
It
aims
support
continued
research
mechanisms
therapeutic
potential
responses.
Frontiers in Space Technologies,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
4
Published: Feb. 13, 2023
Long-term
space
missions
require
a
good
understanding
of
human
adaptation
to
hostile
environments
in
space.
Some
professional
have
constraints
that
are
isolating,
confined,
extreme,
or
unusual
constraints.
They
can
serve
as
analogs
for
studying
challenge
their
environmental
disrupt
the
balance
between
demands
environment
and
resources
mobilized
by
individuals.
This
disruption
homeostasis
leads
increased
stress,
decreased
performance,
poor
overall
health
these
professionals.
Nevertheless,
analogs,
also
offer
information
better
identifying
individual
psychological
cognitive
effective
adapting
caused
exceptional
environments.
Studies
suggest
mindfulness
(i.e.,
awareness
emerges
paying
attention
purposefully,
present
moment,
without
judgment
experience
is
unfolding
moment
moment)
may
be
relevant
candidate
dealing
with
issues.
Thus,
we
address
resource
face
based
on
experiences
analog
military
contexts.
We
propose
open
discussions
new
countermeasures
focused
developing
mindfulness,
especially
through
use
technologies
(e.g.,
“immersive
reality”
others),
increase
programs
tailored
needs
astronauts
long
journeys.
We
significantly
enriched
ChillsDB,
a
dataset
of
audiovisual
stimuli
validated
to
elicit
aesthetic
chills.
A
total
2,937
participants
from
Southern
California
were
exposed
40
stimuli,
consisting
20
(10
ChillsDB
and
10
new)
presented
either
in
or
audio-only
formats.
Questionnaires
administered
assessing
demographics,
personality
traits,
state
affect,
political
orientation.
Detailed
data
on
chills
responses
is
captured
alongside
participants'
ratings
the
stimuli.
The
combines
controlled
elicitation
using
previously
materials
with
individual
difference
measures
enable
investigation
predictors
correlates
phenomena.
It
aims
support
continued
research
mechanisms
therapeutic
potential
responses.