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Task-Dependent Heart-Brain Interactions Regulate Human Self-Awareness.

Musi Xie^1,2,3, Hang Wu^1,4, Han Bao^1,2,3

¹Key Laboratory of Brain, Cognition and Education Sciences, Ministry of Education, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631, China.

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Summary

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Heart-brain interaction influences self-awareness. This connection is task-dependent, with specific internal states, like recognizing your own face, impacting how the brain processes self-identity.

Keywords:

Heart-brain interaction Heartbeat-evoked potential (HEP)Self-awareness Task-dependence

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Psychology

Background:

Self-awareness is crucial for distinguishing self from others.
The role of heart-brain interaction in modulating self-awareness, particularly under different task conditions, is not well understood.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how heart-brain interactions modulate self-awareness.
To determine if task-induced internal states influence this modulation.

Main Methods:

Utilized own-, celebrity-, and stranger-face stimuli.
Induced self-related and non-self-related internal states via Own-Face and Celebrity-Face Recognition tasks.
Measured heart-brain interactions using pre-stimulus heartbeat-evoked potentials.

Main Results:

Heart-brain interactions predicted self-recognition.
Heart-brain interactions moderated the link between self-recognition and sensory processing.
These effects were observed only in the Own-Face Recognition task, not the Celebrity-Face Recognition task.

Conclusions:

Demonstrated adaptive heart-brain interactive self-awareness processing.
Highlighted the critical role of task-induced internal states in body-brain regulation of self-awareness.