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Cardiac and Gastric Interoceptive Awareness Have Distinct Neural Substrates
| Title: | Cardiac and Gastric Interoceptive Awareness Have Distinct Neural Substrates |
| Authors: | Haruki, Yusuke Browse this author | | Ogawa, Kenji Browse this author →KAKEN DB |
| Keywords: | interoceptive awareness | | interoceptive attention | | cardiac interoception | | gastric interoception | | fMRI | | insula |
| Issue Date: | Jan-2023 |
| Publisher: | Society for Neuroscience |
| Journal Title: | eNeuro |
| Volume: | 10 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Publisher DOI: | 10.1523/ENEURO.0157-22.2023 |
| Abstract: | Interoceptive awareness, an awareness of the internal body state, guides adaptive behavior by providing ongoing information on body signals, such as heart rate and energy status. However, it is still unclear how interoceptive awareness of different body organs are represented in the human brain. Hence, we directly compared the neural activations accompanying attention to cardiac (related to heartbeat) and gastric (related to stomach) sensations, which generate cardiac and gastric interoceptive awareness, in the same population (healthy humans, N = 31). Participants were asked to direct their attention toward heart and stomach sensations and become aware of them in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner. The results indicated that the neural activations underlying gastric attention encompassed larger brain regions, including the occipitotemporal visual cortices, bilateral primary motor cortices, primary somatosensory cortex, left orbitofrontal cortex, and hippocampal regions. Cardiac attention, however, selectively activated the right anterior insula extending to the frontal operculum compared with gastric attention. Moreover, our detailed analyses focusing on the insula, the most relevant region for interoceptive awareness, revealed that the left dorsal middle insula encoded cardiac and gastric attention via different activation patterns, but the posterior insula did not. Our results demonstrate that cardiac and gastric attention evoke different brain activation patterns; in particular, the selective activation may reflect differences in the functional roles of cardiac and gastric interoceptive awareness. |
| Type: | article |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2115/88574 |
| Appears in Collections: | 文学院・文学研究院 (Graduate School of Humanities and Human Sciences / Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences) > 雑誌発表論文等 (Peer-reviewed Journal Articles, etc)
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