Interoception

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The body's sense of itself — the felt visceral state through which the brain tracks the homeostatic condition of the organism. In the dominant anatomical model the afferent pathway runs through small-diameter spinothalamic fibres into the dorsal posterior insula and is re-represented in the right anterior insula as conscious feeling; the post-2013 predictive-processing alternative inverts the directionality and reads interoception as inference about expected body state rather than direct readout. A reading list assembled around the term — Augustine's 1996 insular anatomy, Damasio's somatic-marker hypothesis, Craig's 2002 reformulation, Critchley's heartbeat-detection paradigm, Garfinkel's three-way accuracy/sensibility/awareness refinement, Naqvi and Bechara's lesion-method evidence on insula and addiction, the predictive-processing counter-statement (Seth; Barrett and Simmons), and the 2018 Khalsa Roadmap as the field's consensus orientation.

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Reading the interoception literature

A chronological and conceptual reading list for the contemporary interoception literature — from Sherrington's 1906 coinage and Augustine's anatomy through Damasio's somatic-marker prehistory, Craig's 2002 reformulation as a distinct sensory modality, Critchley's heartbeat-detection paradigm, Naqvi and Bechara's causal-evidence lesion work, the post-2013 predictive-processing alternative (Seth; Barrett and Simmons), Garfinkel's three-way methodological refinement, and the 2018 Khalsa Roadmap. Where the disagreements live and how the construct arrived at its present shape.

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Constructed emotion · Insular cortex · Interoception · Interoceptive accuracy · Interoceptive awareness · Interoceptive inference · Interoceptive sensibility · Predictive processing · Somatic marker hypothesis

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A. D. (Bud) Craig · Anil Seth · Antoine Bechara · Antonio Damasio · Hugo Critchley · James R. Augustine · Lisa Feldman Barrett · Nasir Naqvi · Sahib Khalsa · Sarah Garfinkel · W. Kyle Simmons

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Circuitry and functional aspects of the insular lobe in primates including humans James R. Augustine, 1996
Interoceptive predictions in the brain Lisa Feldman Barrett, W. Kyle Simmons, 2015-05-28
How do you feel? Interoception — the sense of the physiological condition of the body A. D. (Bud) Craig, 2002
How do you feel — now? The anterior insula and human awareness A. D. (Bud) Craig, 2009
Neural systems supporting interoceptive awareness Hugo D. Critchley, Stefan Wiens, Pia Rotshtein, Arne Öhman, Raymond J. Dolan, 2004
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain Antonio Damasio, 1994
Knowing your own heart: distinguishing interoceptive accuracy from interoceptive awareness Sarah N. Garfinkel, Anil K. Seth, Adam B. Barrett, Keisuke Suzuki, Hugo D. Critchley, 2015-01
Interoception and Mental Health — A Roadmap Sahib S. Khalsa, Ralph Adolphs, Oliver G. Cameron, Hugo D. Critchley, Paul W. Davenport, Justin S. Feinstein, Jamie D. Feusner, Sarah N. Garfinkel, Richard D. Lane, Wolf E. Mehling, Alicia E. Meuret, Charles B. Nemeroff, Stephen Oppenheimer, Frederike H. Petzschner, Olga Pollatos, Jamie L. Rhudy, Lawrence P. Schramm, W. Kyle Simmons, Murray B. Stein, Klaas E. Stephan, Omer Van den Bergh, Ilse Van Diest, Andreas von Leupoldt, Martin P. Paulus, and the Interoception Summit 2016 Participants, 2018-06
Damage to the insula disrupts addiction to cigarette smoking Nasir H. Naqvi, David Rudrauf, Hanna Damasio, Antoine Bechara, 2007-01-26
Interoceptive inference, emotion, and the embodied self Anil K. Seth, 2013-11