What Can We Sense? Interoceptive Accuracy

Köteles, Ferenc

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-63201-4_4

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“…In line with this conclusion, a number of authors proposed that, considering the limitations of human stimulus processing capacity, it is more adaptive to focus on external rather than interoceptive cues [ 79 – 81 ]. As perception of heartbeats is not needed for physiological regulation of the cardiovascular system, it is possible that it is simply a by-product (i.e., a neutral feature) of the rhythmic movements of the heart [ 3 ]. As the cardiac signal is weak and not salient, we learn to ignore it under everyday circumstances [ 79 ].…”

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“…The acuity of perception of heartbeat, that is, cardioceptive accuracy (CAc), is the most frequently assessed aspect of interoception [ 1 – 3 ]. The measurement of CAc, particularly in the case of the so-called mental tracking task or Schandry task [ 4 , 5 ], is highly problematic as top-down factors, such as expectancy and knowledge on heart rate (HR), appear to play a substantial role in the process [ 6 – 14 ].…”

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Do we need to accurately perceive our heartbeats? Cardioceptive accuracy and sensibility are independent from indicators of negative affectivity, body awareness, body image dissatisfaction, and alexithymia

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Assessment of the acuity of heartbeat perception, dubbed cardioceptive accuracy, as well as its association with various psychological characteristics are hot topics of interoception research. In this study, we aimed (1) to replicate previously reported findings on the association between the mental tracking task and a novel motor tracking task that eliminates disturbing tactile sensations; and (2) to explore associations between performance in the latter task and indicators of negative affectivity (anxiety, depression, anxiety sensitivity, somatic symptom distress), alexithymia, body focus, and dissatisfaction with body image. 102 young people (age = 20.8±5.08 yrs) participated in the study. Mental tracking score was significantly higher than motor tracking scores, although they were strongly associated. Frequentist correlation analysis showed no significant associations between indicators of cardioceptive accuracy and questionnaire scores; Bayesian analysis indicated the lack of association for the majority of the cases. Similarly, detectors and non-detectors showed no differences in any of the assessed characteristics and Bayesian results typically supported the lack of associations. In conclusion, cardioceptive accuracy, as assessed with different tracking methods, is not associated with the aforementioned self-reported characteristics in young individuals.

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Do we need to accurately perceive our heartbeats? Cardioceptive accuracy and sensibility are independent from indicators of negative affectivity, body awareness, body image dissatisfaction, and alexithymia

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Sensory and affective aspects of the perception of respiratory resistance

Drozdovszky¹,

Petzke²,

Köteles³

2023

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Perception of airway resistance has a sensory and an affective aspect, i.e., perceived resistance and unpleasantness, respectively. The current study aimed to shed more light on the relationship of these aspects, as well as their malleability to trait-like aspects of body awareness. In a laboratory study, 71 young participants completed two respiratory resistive load discrimination tasks relying on sensory and affective evaluation, respectively, and filled out questionnaires assessing somatosensory amplification, anxiety sensitivity, somatic symptoms distress, and breath awareness. Frequentist and Bayesian statistical analysis revealed no differences in discrimination accuracy with respect to the sensory and affective aspect of perceived resistance. Psychological traits were not associated with accuracy scores. In conclusion, affective evaluation of respiratory load is as accurate as sensory evaluation. Neither sensory not affective accuracy is influenced by various aspects of body awareness.

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