Editorial: Body Representation and Interoceptive Awareness: Cognitive, Affective, and Social Implications

Martini, M.; Guariglia, Cecilia; Santangelo, Gabriella; Trojano, Luigi; Palermo, Liana

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.928952

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“…The PCAR analysis showed an eigenvalue of 4.78 and a percentage variance of 16.49%, indicating that underneath the broader aspect of interoceptive awareness, the MAIA may encompass about aspects of interoceptive awareness. The paired t-tests showed that the person location on the subtests created by the positive (items 2, 19,20,21,22,27,28,29) and negative (items 11,12,13,14,17,30,31) loadings on the first principal component showed that 21.95% of the person locations were significantly different between the subtests, confirming the underlying aspects of the MAIA. In the same vein, LID was found in 42 item pairs (S3 Table ).…”

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confidence: 67%

“…Recent literature has shown that 81% of adults with vascular brain injuries exhibit deficits in at least one type of mental body representations [12]. Data from lesion studies on braindamaged patients with body representation disorders also support the pivotal role of interoceptive processing in body representations [23][24][25][26][27][28]. Our prior work demonstrated that exercises from a physical therapy approach that helps restore body representations-called Cognitive Multisensory Rehabilitation -, activates the parietal operculum and the insula [29][30][31] and that Cognitive Multisensory Rehabilitation restores parietal operculum connectivity with other brain areas concurrent with sensorimotor recovery post stroke lasting at least 1 year [11].…”

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Preliminary Rasch analysis of the multidimensional assessment of interoceptive awareness in adults with stroke

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Purpose The Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA) measures interoceptive body awareness, which includes aspects such as attention regulation, self-regulation, and body listening. Our purpose was to perform a preliminary validation of the MAIA in adults with stroke using Rasch Measurement Theory. Methods The original MAIA has 32 items that measure interoceptive sensibility, which is an aspect of body awareness. We performed a preliminary analysis with Rasch Measurement Theory to evaluate the unidimensionality and structural validity of the scale. We investigated overall fit to assess unidimensionality, person and item fit, person separation reliability, targeting, local item dependence, and principal components analysis of residuals. Results Forty-one adults with chronic stroke (average 3.8 years post-stroke, 13 women, average age 57±13 years) participated in the study. Overall fit (χ 2 = 62.26, p = 0.26) and item fit were obtained after deleting 3 items and rescoring 26 items. One participant did not fit the model (2.44%). There were no floor (0.00%) or ceiling effects (0.00%). Local item dependence was found in 42 pairs. The person separation reliability was 0.91, and the person mean location was 0.06±1.12 logits. Conclusions The preliminary structural validity of the MAIA demonstrated good targeting and reliability, as well as unidimensionality, and good item and person fit in adults with chronic stroke. A study with a larger sample size is needed to validate our findings.

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Preliminary Rasch analysis of the multidimensional assessment of interoceptive awareness in adults with stroke

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“…As such, it influences both how body image is experienced (Khalsa et al, 2020) as well as the malleability of the body schema (Heydrich et al, 2021;Raimo et al, 2022).…”

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Body image disturbance, interoceptive sensibility and the body schema across female adulthood: A pre-registered study

Naraindas,

Cooney

2023

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Body image disturbance (BID) includes distortions associated with weight or shape and is typically exemplified by explicit negative attitudes and evaluations of one's body. Women with high levels of BIDs show disturbances in the body schema: an implicit sensorimotor representation of the body in space which includes mental simulation of a movement such as motor imagery. Interoception, the processing of internal bodily signals, influences both the body image and body schema. Here, we examined the relationship between BID, interoceptive sensibility and the body schema across different age cohorts of adult women. Online cross-sectional data were collected from 1214 female participants from four age groups: Young adults (18-24), Adults (25-39), Middle-aged adults (40-59), and Older aged adults (60-75). BID was indexed by questionnaires measuring body objectification (body surveillance and body shame) and state and trait body dissatisfaction. Interoceptive sensibility was measured using the MAIA-2. The body schema was evaluated through the Own Body Transformation (OBT) task: a mental rotation task which assessed the capacity to make an embodied mental transformation. Results show that while body objectification and state body dissatisfaction decreased from young to older adulthood, trait dissatisfaction showed a marked increase. Additionally, a negative relationship between interoceptive sensibility and BID across all age groups was evidenced. Finally, age, BID and orientation of the presented body were significant predictors of the time taken to make an embodied transformation. Overall, this study shows that components of BID take on different trajectories across female adulthood and are associated with how the body schema is represented in non-clinical populations.

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“…Recent neurophysiological models and experimental paradigms (e.g., the rubber hand illusion), together with studies on patients with nervous system damage, suggest that mental representations of one's own body develop from the integration of different bodily sources of information, including the somatosensory, interoceptive, visual and motor ones (Berlucchi & Aglioti, 2010;Suzuki et al, 2013;Park & Blanke, 2019;Boccia et al, 2020; see also Raimo et al, 2022).…”

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“…These inner and outer BR are crucial for building up our sense of the self (Craig, 2010;Medina & Coslett, 2016), but also for interacting with others and with the environment (Goldman & de Vignemont, 2009;Dijkerman & Lenggenhager, 2018;Meltzoff & Marshall, 2020;Raimo et al, 2022). For this reason, the mental representation of information from the body has been proposed to play a pivotal role in social cognition (Goldman & de Vignmenont, 2009;Dijkerman & Lenggenhager, 2018;Gao et al, 2019;Lindblom et al, 2020).…”

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Linking the inner and outer body representation with social cognition skills: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Canino¹,

Torchia²,

Palermo³

2023

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Following an exciting interpretation of embodiment, mental representations in bodily formats have an essential role in social cognition. However, the nature of this relationship is still debated at the empirical level. This systematic review and meta- analysis investigates the relationship between inner and outer body mental representations and core social cognition aspects like empathy and theory of mind (ToM) in adulthood. Our meta-analytic findings indicate that the tendency to focus on one's interoceptive feelings is positively related to cognitive and affective empathy, while the accurate monitoring of internal body states is only positively related to cognitive empathy. There is also evidence that an excessive focus on internal bodily sensations might hinder understanding others' affective states (affective ToM). On the other hand, body representations more related to external body processing could be positively associated with cognitive ToM. These results suggest diverse links between social cognition components and bodily representations, supporting multi-faceted and embodied social cognition models. Critical knowledge gaps were also identified, highlighting the need for further investigation.

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Editorial: Body Representation and Interoceptive Awareness: Cognitive, Affective, and Social Implications

Cited by 6 publications

References 14 publications

Preliminary Rasch analysis of the multidimensional assessment of interoceptive awareness in adults with stroke

Preliminary Rasch analysis of the multidimensional assessment of interoceptive awareness in adults with stroke

Body image disturbance, interoceptive sensibility and the body schema across female adulthood: A pre-registered study

Linking the inner and outer body representation with social cognition skills: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

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