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Interoception is the perception of inner bodily sensations, including signals from diverse bodily systems, such as the cardiac and digestive ones. This sensory capacity exhibits significant variability among individuals, garnering attention in research because of its relevance to mental and physical health and in driving cognitive processes such as decision-making and social cognition. Despite tremendous advances, numerous questions remain to be addressed.
This symposium aims to delve into the intraindividual variability of interoceptive processing and its implications for mental and cognitive health. Through a series of talks, we will explore the complex interplay between the conscious perception of bodily signals and mental processes, shedding light on how individual differences in interoception contribute to cognitive functioning and well-being.
In the first part, we will focus on interoception for cardiac signals, exploring the dimensions that, at the conscious level, are more commonly supported across various taxonomies: interoceptive accuracy, sensibility, and awareness. Canino will show how these dimensions vary during development, focusing on adolescence, a period of life where many psychiatric disorders have their onset and which is argued to have a substantial impact on health later in life. Then, Vercelli and Gaita will shed light, respectively, on the consequences of such individual differences in (i) shaping bodily self-awareness and self-consciousness in a non-clinical population and (ii) in the construction of higher-order functional body representations in Parkinson's disease.
Salaris will conclude by analyzing the role of interoception in the symptomatology of functional gastrointestinal disorders and borderline hypertension, focusing on cardiac and gastric interoception.
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