Interoception is associated with the impact of eye contact on spontaneous facial mimicry.

ABSTRACT: Interoception (perception of one's own physiological state) has been suggested to underpin social cognition, although the mechanisms underlying this association remain unclear. The current study aimed to elucidate the relationship between interoception and two factors underlying social cognition: self-other boundary and sensitivity to social cues. We measured performance in a heartbeat perception task as an index of interoceptive accuracy (IAc), the frequency of spontaneous facial mimicry (SFM) as an index of self-other boundary, and the degree of the effect of eye contact on SFM (difference in SFM between conditions in which models' eyes were directed to and averted from participants) as an index of social-cue sensitivity, and tested correlations among these measures. The results revealed

SUBMITTER: Imafuku M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7670470 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature