Garfinkel, Sarah N, Seth, Anil K, Barrett, Adam B, Suzuki, Keisuke and Critchley, Hugo D (2015) Knowing your own heart: distinguishing interoceptive accuracy from interoceptive awareness. Biological Psychology, 104. pp. 65-74. ISSN 0301-0511

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Abstract

Interoception refers to the sensing of internal bodily changes. Interoception interacts with cognition and emotion, making measurement of individual differences in interoceptive ability broadly relevant to neuropsychology. However, inconsistency in how interoception is defined and quantified led to a three-dimensional model. Here, we provide empirical support for dissociation between dimensions of: (1) interoceptive accuracy (performance on objective behavioural tests of heartbeat detection), (2) interoceptive sensibility (self-evaluated assessment of subjective interoception, gauged using interviews/questionnaires) and (3) interoceptive awareness (metacognitive awareness of interoceptive accuracy, e.g. confidence-accuracy correspondence). In a normative sample (N = 80), all three dimensions were distinct and dissociable. Interoceptive accuracy was only partly predicted by interoceptive awareness and interoceptive sensibility. Significant correspondence between dimensions emerged only within the sub-group of individuals with greatest interoceptive accuracy. These findings set the context for defining how the relative balance of accuracy, sensibility and awareness dimensions explain cognitive, emotional and clinical associations of interoceptive ability.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Anxiety; Emotion; Interoception; Perception; Predictive coding; Metacognition
Schools and Departments:	Brighton and Sussex Medical School > Neuroscience School of Engineering and Informatics > Informatics
Subjects:	R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Depositing User:	Christina Lee
Date Deposited:	09 Mar 2015 09:15
Last Modified:	28 Jul 2017 16:58
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/52974

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