'Bodily precision': A predictive coding account of individual differences in interoceptive accuracy

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1708, 2016, Pages

  Ainley, Vivien ^a   Apps, Matthew A J ^b   Fotopoulou, Aikaterini ^c   Tsakiris, Manos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Free energy; Heartbeat perception; Interoception; Interoceptive accuracy; Predictive coding

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COGNITION; GIBBS FREE ENERGY; HOMEOSTASIS; MENTAL HEALTH; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PATHOLOGY; PRECISION; PSYCHOLOGY; SENSORY SYSTEM;

AWARENESS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; INTEROCEPTION;

AWARENESS; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTEROCEPTION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL;

EID: 84991508470     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0003     Document Type: Article

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