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Interoception
The sensing, interpretation and integration of signals from inside the body, such as heartbeat, breathing, hunger and visceral sensations. Research distinguishes interoceptive accuracy on objective tasks such as heartbeat detection, self-reported interoceptive sensibility, and metacognitive awareness of one's own accuracy; in one sample these three dimensions were dissociable. Heartbeat-counting tasks in particular have been criticised for being influenced by beliefs about heart rate, so accuracy scores should be interpreted cautiously. Affective computing promises to infer emotion as if it were a system metric. The evidence on facial movements and autonomic signals, together with questions of consent, explains why every metric in this artifact is an artistic value. Labelling an emotion engages prefrontal regulation and reduces amygdala responses in the laboratory. Precise naming is a low-cost first step that changes the course of an emotion without discharge. The works the definition rests on, with the level of evidence each was appraised at. (2015). Knowing your own heart: Distinguishing interoceptive accuracy from interoceptive awareness. doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2014.11.004 Supports the claim that interoceptive accuracy, sensibility and awareness were distinct and dissociable dimensions. A single modest sample; the heartbeat tasks used have known measurement limitations.Where the site uses it
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