Let’s start with a fun exercise: adopt a resting position such as sitting comfortably on a chair or lying on your back. Remain still for a minute or two and breathe evenly until your body is calm and ...

Some people may simply be more sensitive to subtle changes in physical comfort and bodily sensations. This can be related to ...

A new study conducted at Reichman University's Baruch Ivcher Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Technology, led by Prof. Amir Amedi, demonstrates how the external representation of physiological ...

A new study in PLOS One assesses the interoceptive powers of athletes. Interoception, the study explains, is “the detection and perception of stimuli originating from within the body.” I assumed this ...

We are all pretty familiar with how our bodies sense what is going on in the outside world – what we see, hear, touch, taste or smell. But exactly how do our brains sense and react to what is going on ...

A new study conducted at Reichman University’s Baruch Ivcher Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Technology, led by Prof. Amir Amedi, demonstrates how the external representation of physiological ...

Brain representations of interoception and emotional processing Work by Hugo Critchley and colleagues (Critchley et al., 2004) has shown that levels of interoceptive sensitivity can be traced in the ...