Schizophrenia research has traditionally focused almost exclusively on how the brain
interprets the outside world. However, our internal bodily milieu is also central to how we …

The interplay between the brain and interoceptive signals is key in maintaining internal
balance and orchestrating neural dynamics, encompassing influences on perceptual and …

Imagination is an internally-generated process, where one can make oneself or other
people appear as protagonists of a scene. How does the brain tag the protagonist of an …

Interoception, the sense of the physiological state of the body, and perspective-taking, the
ability to take another's point of view, are two fundamental components contributing to our …

Scholars have argued for centuries that affective states involve interoception, or
representations of the state of the body. Yet, we lack a mechanistic understanding of how …

Abstract “Sickness behavior” is an orchestrated suite of symptoms that commonly occur in
the context of inflammation, and is characterized by changes in affect, social experience …

In this article, we summarize our views on the problem of consciousness and outline the
current version of a novel hypothesis for how conscious minds can be generated in …

How global and local activity interact with each other is a common question in complex
systems like climate and economy. Analogously, the brain too displays 'global'activity that …

Humans' sensory systems work synergistically to allow us to determine where our head and
body are relative to the environment. To date, most research on this topic has focused on the …

Humans imbue the objects of their perception with affective meaning, a phenomenon called
affective realism. The affective realism hypothesis proposes that a brain continually predicts …