Heartfelt imitation: High interoceptive awareness is linked to greater automatic imitation

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 21-28

  Ainley, Vivien ^a   Brass, Marcel ^b   Tsakiris, Manos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Automatic imitation; Heartbeat perception; Interoceptive awareness

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATIC IMITATION; AWARENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HEART BEAT; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMITATION; INTEROCEPTIVE AWARENESS; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; STUDENT; ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; INTEROCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INTEROCEPTION; MALE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901981647     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.05.010     Document Type: Article

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