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The inside of me: interoceptive constraints on the concept of self in neuroscience and clinical psychology
Humans are unique in their ability to think about themselves and carry a more or less clear notion of who they are in their mind. Here we review recent evidence suggesting that the birth, maintenance, and loss of the abstract concept of ‘self’ is deeply tied to interoception, the sense of internal p...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9674731/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34050431 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01477-7 |
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author | Monti, Alessandro Porciello, Giuseppina Panasiti, Maria Serena Aglioti, Salvatore Maria |
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description | Humans are unique in their ability to think about themselves and carry a more or less clear notion of who they are in their mind. Here we review recent evidence suggesting that the birth, maintenance, and loss of the abstract concept of ‘self’ is deeply tied to interoception, the sense of internal physiological signals. Interoception influences multiple facets of the self-concept, cutting across its material, social, moral, and agentive components. Overall, we argue that interoception contributes to the stability of the self-concept over time, unifying its layers and constraining the degree to which it is susceptible to external influences. Hence, the core features of the self-concept are those that correlate more with inner bodily states. We discuss the implications that this may have for theories of embodied cognition as well as for the understanding of psychiatric disorders in which the concept of self appears fragmented or loose. Finally, we formulate some empirical predictions that could be tested in future studies to shed further light on this emerging field. |
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spelling | pubmed-96747312022-11-20 The inside of me: interoceptive constraints on the concept of self in neuroscience and clinical psychology Monti, Alessandro Porciello, Giuseppina Panasiti, Maria Serena Aglioti, Salvatore Maria Psychol Res Original Article Humans are unique in their ability to think about themselves and carry a more or less clear notion of who they are in their mind. Here we review recent evidence suggesting that the birth, maintenance, and loss of the abstract concept of ‘self’ is deeply tied to interoception, the sense of internal physiological signals. Interoception influences multiple facets of the self-concept, cutting across its material, social, moral, and agentive components. Overall, we argue that interoception contributes to the stability of the self-concept over time, unifying its layers and constraining the degree to which it is susceptible to external influences. Hence, the core features of the self-concept are those that correlate more with inner bodily states. We discuss the implications that this may have for theories of embodied cognition as well as for the understanding of psychiatric disorders in which the concept of self appears fragmented or loose. Finally, we formulate some empirical predictions that could be tested in future studies to shed further light on this emerging field. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021-05-28 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9674731/ /pubmed/34050431 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01477-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Article Monti, Alessandro Porciello, Giuseppina Panasiti, Maria Serena Aglioti, Salvatore Maria The inside of me: interoceptive constraints on the concept of self in neuroscience and clinical psychology |
title | The inside of me: interoceptive constraints on the concept of self in neuroscience and clinical psychology |
title_full | The inside of me: interoceptive constraints on the concept of self in neuroscience and clinical psychology |
title_fullStr | The inside of me: interoceptive constraints on the concept of self in neuroscience and clinical psychology |
title_full_unstemmed | The inside of me: interoceptive constraints on the concept of self in neuroscience and clinical psychology |
title_short | The inside of me: interoceptive constraints on the concept of self in neuroscience and clinical psychology |
title_sort | inside of me: interoceptive constraints on the concept of self in neuroscience and clinical psychology |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9674731/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34050431 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01477-7 |
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