For many decades, neuroscientists understood the brain as a 'stimulus–response' organ, consisting of individual neurons that lie dormant until stimulated. In this traditional model, learning and ...

Sometimes our bodies react to the world around us before we realise, so how do internal signals such as a quickening heart or deep breathing affect our thoughts? It was day 29 of a gruelling 600-mile ...

Emotional granularity develops when relational safety and mindfulness reduce compression, allowing the brain to tolerate ...

Interoception is how your brain senses and responds to what’s going on inside your body. “It’s how we know when we’re hungry, thirsty, anxious, or even need to take a deep breath,” says Wen G. Chen, ...

Interoceptive awareness is the awareness of inner body sensations, involving the sensory process of receiving, accessing, and appraising internal bodily signals (Craig, 2009). Interoceptive awareness ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Body-awareness relies on the representation of both interoceptive and exteroceptive percepts coming from one's body. However, the exact ...

Tuning into your body's internal signals, known as interoceptive awareness, is a powerful yet overlooked mental health ...

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