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Interoceptive inference, emotion, and the embodied self
The concept of the brain as a prediction machine has enjoyed a resurgence in the context of the Bayesian brain and predictive coding approaches within cognitive science. To date, this perspective has been applied primarily to exteroceptive perception (e.g., vision, audition), and action. Here, I describe 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. The model generalizes ‘appraisal’ theories that view emotions as emerging from cognitive evaluations of physiological changes, and it sheds new light on the neurocognitive mechanisms that underlie the experience of body ownership and conscious selfhood in health and in neuropsychiatric illness.
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Fellowship; EPSRC; EP/G007543/1
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Trends in Cognitive SciencesISSN
13646613Publisher
Elsevier (Cell Press)External DOI
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11Volume
17Page range
565-573Department affiliated with
- Informatics Publications
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2014-08-13First Open Access (FOA) Date
2014-08-13First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2014-08-13Usage metrics
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