Sustained attention is related to heartbeat counting task performance but not to self-reported aspects of interoception and mindfulness

Vig, Luca; Ferentzi, Eszter; Köteles, Ferenc

doi:10.1016/j.concog.2021.103209

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“…Nonetheless, the relationship between interoceptive accuracy and attention was found to be significant only in lows. This discrepancy could be explained, on the one hand, by the lows' higher variability of self-reported attention and, on the other hand, by the questionable validity of the heartbeat counting task (Desmedt et al, 2018;Pollatos et al, 2009;Ring et al, 2015;Vig et al, 2021), which was not found to correlate with HEP in the present study.…”

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“…Interoceptive sensitivity is usually measured by the self‐report questionnaires of interoceptive experience, such as the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA; Mehling, 2016; Mehling et al., 2012) and Body Perception Questionnaire (BPQ; Cabrera et al., 2018; Porges, 1993), whereas interoceptive awareness is typically calculated as the correlation between the measured and self‐perceived accuracy (Garfinkel et al., 2015). However, the validity of the HCT, as a pure measure of interoceptive accuracy, has come under question due to the observed influence of other cognitive–emotional and external factors on its results (Desmedt et al., 2018; Pollatos et al., 2009; Ring et al., 2015; Vig et al., 2021). Thus, heartbeat‐evoked cortical potentials (HEP) are increasingly used in conjunction with the HCT to assess cardiac interoceptive abilities (Coll et al., 2021; Park & Blanke, 2019).…”

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Interoception as a function of hypnotizability during rest and a heartbeat counting task

Giusti,

Zelič,

Callara

et al. 2024

Psychophysiology

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The hypnotizability‐related differences in morpho‐functional characteristics of the insula could at least partially account for the differences in interoceptive accuracy (IA) observed between high and low hypnotizable individuals (highs, lows). Our aim was to investigate interoceptive processing in highs, lows, and medium hypnotizable individuals (mediums), who represent most of the population, during a 10‐minute open eyes relaxation condition (Part 1) and three repetitions of consecutive 2‐minute open eyes, closed eyes, and heartbeat counting conditions, followed by a 2‐minute post‐counting condition (Part 2). Electrocardiogram and electroencephalogram were recorded in 14 highs, 14 mediums, and 18 lows, classified according to the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale: Form A. Heartbeat‐evoked cortical potentials (HEP) were extracted throughout the entire session, and IA index was obtained for the heartbeat counting task (HCT). In Part 1, significant hypnotizability‐related differences were observed in the right central region in both early and late HEP components, with lows showing positive amplitudes and highs/mediums showing negative amplitudes. In Part 2, the same group differences were limited to the early component. Moreover, in the left frontal regions, only mediums modified their HEP during the counting task with respect to the open/closed eyes conditions, whereas highs displayed HEP differences between counting and post‐counting rest. HCT did not show significant group differences. In conclusion, highs and mediums seem to be more similar than mediums and lows regarding HEP, despite the absence of significant differences in HCT. Nonetheless, a negative correlation between hypnotizability scores and HEP amplitudes was observed in the regions showing group differences.

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Interoception as a function of hypnotizability during rest and a heartbeat counting task

Giusti,

Zelič,

Callara

et al. 2024

Psychophysiology

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“…In other words, the flankers potentially went from distracting to facilitative. This is the first study to measure selective visual attention whereas others measured inhibition ( Rae et al, 2020 ; Rae et al, 2018 ) and/or sustained attention ( Vig, Ferentzi & Koteles, 2021 ). Therefore, in line with the hypothesis that interoceptive accuracy facilitates finding the self as signal from noise ( Frewen et al, 2020 ), it may be that it also corresponds with the ability to identify a visual signal from noise.…”

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“…At a practical level, there may simply be some overlap between the ability to avoid distraction and still identify one’s bodily signals ( Buldeo, 2015 ), and establishing these boundaries can clarify the form and function of attention. Of the limited available studies that have probed the link between subjective interoception and exteroceptive cognition, the results have been mixed: some studies have shown a positive relationship between interoceptive and exteroceptive (visual) attention ( Rae et al, 2020 ) whereas others showed no relationship ( Rae et al, 2018 ; Vig, Ferentzi & Koteles, 2021 ). All self-report measures assessed interoceptive attention.…”

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Self-reported interoceptive accuracy and interoceptive attention differentially correspond to measures of visual attention and self-regard

Benau

2023

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Background Interoception, the perception of bodily functions and sensations, is a crucial contributor to cognition, emotion, and well-being. However, the relationship between these three processes is not well understood. Further, it is increasingly clear that dimensions of interoception differentially corresponds to these processes, yet this is only recently being explored. The present study addresses two important questions: Are subjective interoceptive accuracy and interoceptive attention related to self-regard and well-being? And are they related to exteroceptive (visual) attention? Methods Participants (N = 98; 29% women; aged 23–64 years) completed: a battery of questionnaires to assess subjective accuracy (how well one predicts bodily sensations), interoceptive attention (a tendency to notice bodily signals), self-regard (self-esteem, self-image, life satisfaction), state negative affect (depression, anxiety, and stress), a self-esteem Implicit Association Task (a measure of implicit self-esteem), and a flanker task to assess visual selective attention. Subjective interoceptive accuracy and attention served as dependent variables. Correlations and principal component analysis was used to establish correlations among variables and determine how, or whether, these measures are associated with subjective interoceptive accuracy or attention. Results Greater scores on measures of self-regard, implicit self-esteem, cognition and lower negative affect were broadly associated with greater subjective interoceptive accuracy. Conversely, only explicit self-esteem, satisfaction with life, and self-image corresponded to subjective interoceptive attention. An exploratory analysis with a more inclusive scale of interoceptive attention was conducted. Results of this exploratory analysis showed that the broader measure was a stronger correlate to self-regard than subjective interoceptive accuracy, though it, too, did not correlate with visual attention. In short, both subjective interoceptive accuracy and attention corresponded to well-being and mental health, but only accuracy was associated with exteroceptive attention. Conclusion These results add to a growing literature suggesting different dimensions of (subjective) interoception differentially correspond to indices of well-being. The links between exteroceptive and interoceptive attention, and their association with merit further study.

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“…The heartbeat counting task (HCT), originally developed by Schandry (1981), has been thoroughly used in interoceptive literature so far and, albeit several kinds of interoceptive accuracy do exist -e.g., respiratory, gastric, etc. (Garfinkel et al, 2016;van Dyck et al, 2016;Ferentzi et al, 2018), cardiac interoceptive accuracy remained the most diffused interoceptive measure even in recent literature with clinical and healthy populations (DeVille et al, 2021;Haruki & Ogawa, 2021;Manzoor et al, 2021;Moccia et al, 2021;Terasawa et al, 2021;Vig et al, 2021;. Notwithstanding, HCT validity has been recently questioned based on the argument that it is influenced by factors that are not an inherent part of the interoceptive domain.…”

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Mental health meets computational neuroscience: A predictive Bayesian account of the relationship between interoception and multisensory bodily illusions in anorexia nervosa

Lernia

Serino

Tuena

et al. 2023

International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology

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Sustained attention is related to heartbeat counting task performance but not to self-reported aspects of interoception and mindfulness

Cited by 10 publications

References 72 publications

Interoception as a function of hypnotizability during rest and a heartbeat counting task

Interoception as a function of hypnotizability during rest and a heartbeat counting task

Self-reported interoceptive accuracy and interoceptive attention differentially correspond to measures of visual attention and self-regard

Mental health meets computational neuroscience: A predictive Bayesian account of the relationship between interoception and multisensory bodily illusions in anorexia nervosa

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