Interoception and the uneasiness of the mind: affect as perceptual style

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Petersen, Sibylle ^a,b   Leupoldt, Andreas von ^b   Bergh, Omer Van den ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

affect; categorization; interoception; predictive coding; symptom perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964338328     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01408     Document Type: Article

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