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  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology
  • Physiology

Background:

  • Interoception, the sense of the internal bodily state, is traditionally measured via accuracy, self-report, or neural signals.
  • Recent models include interoceptive attention and signal interpretation, but these dimensions are often studied in isolation.
  • This fragmented approach fails to capture the full complexity of interoceptive processing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To advocate for comprehensive interoception assessment across multiple dimensions and bodily axes.
  • To explore the dissociability of interoceptive dimensions and their mapping to cognitive and emotional functions.
  • To establish a framework for characterizing individual interoceptive profiles and their clinical relevance.

Main Methods:

  • Assessing all interoceptive dimensions within individuals.
  • Evaluating interoceptive function within single bodily axes (e.g., cardiac) and across multiple axes.
  • Integrating behavioral, self-report, and neural measures for a holistic view.

Main Results:

  • Current interoceptive assessment methods are often isolated, limiting a complete understanding.
  • Interoceptive processes may be dissociable across dimensions and bodily axes.
  • Differential mapping of interoceptive dimensions to cognitive and emotion processing is suggested.

Conclusions:

  • Comprehensive interoceptive assessment is crucial for understanding general interoceptive function.
  • Characterizing individual interoceptive profiles can reveal selective disruptions in clinical conditions.
  • Future research should further delineate the correspondence between interoceptive measures and specific processing types.