Linguistic embodiment in typical and atypical anorexia nervosa: Evidence from an image‐word matching task

P Meneguzzo, D Dal Brun, E Collantoni… - European Eating …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The integration of sensory, motor, and cognitive systems is embodied cognition,
according to which mind and body are not separate and distinct, and our body (and our …

Two identical twin pairs discordant for longstanding anorexia nervosa and OSFED: lived experience accounts of eating disorder and recovery processes

R Elwyn, M Williams, E Smith, S Smith - Journal of Eating Disorders, 2024 - Springer
Research into the risk of anorexia nervosa (AN) has examined twin pairs to further the
understanding of the contributions of genetics, trait inheritance, and environmental factors to …

Disturbances in Body-Based Mental and Motor Imagery in Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa–A Systematic Review of Experimental Studies

AM Naraindas, SM Cooney - Journal of Experimental …, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
Imagining one's body is crucial for how we perceive our appearance (ie imagining how we
might appear to others), for imagining movement (motor imagery), navigation, and self …

The Role of Interoceptive Sensitivity and Hypnotizability in Motor Imagery

E Malloggi, Ž Zelič, EL Santarcangelo - Brain Sciences, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Motor imagery (MI) requires the mental representation of the body, obtained by integrating
exteroceptive and interoceptive information. This study aimed to investigate the role of …

Body image disturbance, interoceptive sensibility and the body schema across female adulthood: A pre-registered study

AM Naraindas, SM Cooney - Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Body image disturbance (BID) typically involves explicit negative attitudes
toward one's shape and weight and is associated with altered interoceptive sensibility (the …

Eyes on the body: assessing attentional bias toward body-related stimuli in Anorexia Nervosa

V Meregalli, S Giovannini, A Trevisan… - Journal of Psychiatric …, 2025 - Elsevier
Objective The aim of the present study was to assess whether patients with Anorexia
Nervosa (AN) presented an attentional bias toward pictures of other women's bodies, as this …

[HTML][HTML] Beyond gender: interoceptive sensibility as a key predictor of body image disturbances

AM Naraindas, M Moreno, SM Cooney - Behavioral Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Body image disturbance (BID) involves negative attitudes towards shape and weight and is
associated with lower levels of interoceptive sensibility (IS)(the subjective perceptions of …

[HTML][HTML] Food induced distractibility in restrictive anorexia nervosa: Different motor patterns for different foods as revealed by a mouse tracker evaluation.

V Meregalli, E Ambrosini, E Tenconi, PA Schroeder… - Appetite, 2023 - Elsevier
An altered automatic processing of food stimuli may contribute to the maintenance of calorie
restriction in patients with restrictive Anorexia Nervosa (AN-R). The present study aimed to …

[HTML][HTML] A quantitative study on peripersonal space in anorexia nervosa and healthy subjects: Role of social variables and association with psychopathology

P Longo, E Scaliti, M Panero, F Toppino… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Objectives This study investigates peripersonal space (PPS) modulation in patients with
anorexia nervosa (AN) versus healthy controls (HCs) and explores associations between …

The impact of weight and negative body image on the body schema in undergraduate women

JD Boucher, J Bourgin, J Lassiaz, K Propice… - Experimental Brain …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Background and Objectives Alterations of the sensory-motor body schema question
the origins of such distortions. For example, in anorexia nervosa where patients think they …