Whose emotion is it? Perspective matters to understand brain-body interactions in emotions.

ABSTRACT: Feeling happy, or judging whether someone else is feeling happy are two distinct facets of emotions that nevertheless rely on similar physiological and neural activity. Differentiating between these two states, also called Self/Other distinction, is an essential aspect of empathy, but how exactly is it implemented? In non-emotional cognition, the transient neural response evoked at each heartbeat, or heartbeat evoked response (HER), indexes the self and signals Self/Other distinction. Here, using electroencephalography (n = 32), we probe whether HERs' role in Self/Other distinction extends also to emotion - a domain where brain-body interactions are particularly relevant. We asked participants to rate independently validated affective scenes, reporting either their own emotion (Self) or th

SUBMITTER: Engelen T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9926012 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature