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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychology
  • Sensory Perception

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  • Spatial perspective-taking is crucial for environmental interaction.
  • Interoception, the sense of the body's internal physiological state, is fundamental to perception.
  • The link between interoception and spatial perspective-taking flexibility is not well understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how interoceptive abilities influence the adoption and flexibility of spatial perspectives.
  • To determine if interoceptive awareness and accuracy correlate with spatial perspective-taking performance.

Main Methods:

  • 90 participants completed interoception assessments (sensibility, cardiac accuracy, awareness).
  • The Graphesthesia task was used to evaluate tactile spatial perspective-taking and its flexibility.
  • Correlational analyses examined relationships between interoception and perspective-taking metrics.

Main Results:

  • Higher cardiac interoceptive awareness correlated with more consistent adoption of decentered spatial perspectives.
  • Greater cardiac interoceptive accuracy was linked to slower and less accurate shifts from decentered to egocentric perspectives.
  • These findings suggest interoception aids in maintaining boundaries between internal states and external spatial awareness.

Conclusions:

  • Interoceptive abilities, particularly awareness, facilitate the adoption of external spatial viewpoints.
  • Interoceptive accuracy may influence the cognitive flexibility required to switch between egocentric and decentered perspectives.
  • The study highlights the role of internal body signaling in shaping how we perceive and navigate external space.