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SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 8, Issue 8, Pages 911-917Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss089
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interoception; interoceptive awareness; embodied cognition; emotion regulation; reappraisal; evoked potentials
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The ability to cognitively regulate emotional responses to aversive events is essential for mental and physical health. One prerequisite of successful emotion regulation is the awareness of emotional states, which in turn is associated with the awareness of bodily signals [interoceptive awareness (IA)]. This study investigated the neural dynamics of reappraisal of emotional responses in 28 participants who differed with respect to IA. Electroencephalography was used to characterize the time course of emotion regulation. We found that reappraisal was accompanied by reduced arousal and significant modulation of late neural responses. What is more, higher IA facilitated downregulation of affect and was associated with more pronounced modulation of underlying neural activity. Therefore, we conclude that IA not only advances the consolidation of somatic markers required for guiding individual behaviour but also creates processing advantages in tasks referring to these bodily markers.
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