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Title: | Exploring Interoception |
Authors: | Kearney, Hannah |
Advisor: | Shore, David I. |
Department: | Psychology |
Keywords: | interoception;body ownership;body awareness;rubber hand illusion (RHI);heartbeat perception (HBP);exteroception;MAIA;GERT;emotion;multisensory;psychology |
Publication Date: | 2018 |
Abstract: | Body ownership is a complicated and multifaceted percept. Although we subjectively perceive body ownership to be a stable component of our identity, recent work has illustrated that body ownership is a dynamic construct that is constantly updated by the integration of current endogenous and exogenous body-related information. The goal of this study was to explore the relation between these endogenous (interoceptive) and exogenous (exteroceptive) channels of information. We investigated this by using a heartbeat perception (HBP) task to measure interoceptive accuracy, and the Rubber Hand Illusion (RHI) to measure malleability of body ownership. Based on prior findings, we hypothesized that the less accurate you are at counting your heartbeats, the more susceptible you will be to the RHI (i.e. the more malleable your sense of body ownership will be). In addition, we were also interested in exploring the relationship between interoception and emotion recognition ability (ERA). In this experiment, we failed to induce the RHI, and thus could not investigate the relationship between endogenous and exogenous body-related information. However, we successfully demonstrated the reliability of the interoceptive accuracy HBP task, as well as demonstrated that interoceptive accuracy is not related to ERA. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/23818 |
Appears in Collections: | Open Access Dissertations and Theses |
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