Interoception and emotion

Critchley & Garfinkel (2017) believes our understanding of emotions and its disorders is growing thanks to greater comprehension of interoception, which means the afferent signalling (mode in which stimuli is sent to the brain), central processing, plus internal body signals interpreted in mental and neural form. The authors describe the new insights discovered concerning interoception and the way it contributes to emotion. They include short-term interoceptive effects on neural and mental processes, the recognition of distinguishable psychological aspects of interoception, and models that explain emotions and selfhood (social construction of self). [NPID: interoception, interoceptive awareness, emotion, afferent signaling, self, selfhood, social construction of self]

Year: 2017

Reference: Critchley, H. D., & Garfinkel, S. N. (2017). Interoception and emotion. Current opinion in psychology, 17, 7–14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.04.020