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The Blink and the Body
Erik M Benau1, Ruth Ann Atchley2
1Department of Psychology, SUNY Old Westbury, Old Westbury, NY, USA.
Experimental Psychology
|March 8, 2022
Summary
Individuals with higher interoceptive awareness (IA) showed better attention, especially with emotional stimuli. Average perceivers struggled with attention tasks, indicating a link between internal awareness and external focus.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Psychology
- Neuroscience
- Psychophysiology
Background:
- Interoceptive awareness (IA) involves sensing internal bodily states.
- Attention is crucial for processing external stimuli.
- The relationship between IA and attentional processes remains under investigation.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the interaction between interoceptive awareness (IA) and attention.
- To examine how emotional stimuli influence attention in individuals with varying IA levels.
- To explore the link between IA and the attentional blink (AB) phenomenon.
Main Methods:
- Utilized an attentional blink (AB) task with emotional and neutral stimuli.
- Classified healthy undergraduates into high and average interoceptive perceiver groups based on a cardiac awareness task.
- Administered AB task with counterbalanced emotional/neutral stimuli as first (T1) and second (T2) targets.
Main Results:
- Both high and average perceivers showed retroactive interference when T2 immediately followed T1.
- Average perceivers, but not high perceivers, exhibited a significant attentional blink effect.
- High perceivers performed best with emotional targets; average perceivers performed worst in these conditions.
Conclusions:
- Interoceptive awareness modulates attentional performance.
- High IA may enhance attentional processing, particularly for emotionally salient information.
- IA and exteroceptive attention appear to be interconnected systems.
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