On the embodiment of emotion regulation: Interoceptive awareness facilitates reappraisal

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 911-917

  Füstös, Jürgen ^a,b   Gramann, Klaus ^c   Herbert, Beate M ^b,d   Pollatos, Olga ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Embodied cognition; Emotion regulation; Evoked potentials; Interoceptive awareness; Iteroception; Reappraisal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMBODIED COGNITION; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTEROCEPTION; INTEROCEPTIVE AWARENESS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REAPPRAISAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EMBODIED COGNITION; EMOTION REGULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; INTEROCEPTION; INTEROCEPTIVE AWARENESS; REAPPRAISAL;

ADULT; AROUSAL; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84888237715     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss089     Document Type: Article

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