Suppression of the auditory N1-component for heartbeat-related sounds reflects interoceptive predictive coding

Biological Psychology

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 172-182

  Van Elk, Michiel ^a,b   Lenggenhager, Bigna ^c   Heydrich, Lukas ^a,d   Blanke, Olaf ^a,d  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Agency; Auditory N1; EEG; Interoception; Predictive coding; Sensory suppression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEART BEAT; HEART CYCLE; HEART SOUND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; R WAVE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; DEFENSE MECHANISM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEART RATE; INDIVIDUALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART SOUNDS; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; REPRESSION, PSYCHOLOGY; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899636700     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: 18736246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2014.03.004     Document Type: Article

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