CellWell record HH-5065
Knowing your own heart: distinguishing interoceptive accuracy from interoceptive awareness
Garfinkel SN, Seth AK, Barrett AB, Suzuki K, Critchley HD.
Biol Psychol ยท 2015
In plain language
This study showed that objective accuracy at detecting one's own heartbeat, self-reported confidence in that ability, and the match between the two are three distinct, only partly overlapping dimensions of interoception, meaning a person can feel confident about their body awareness without actually being accurate.
- Evidence
- Established
- Studied in
- Human
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