Maintaining a balance of physiological responses at all times is important for humans to function optimally in daily life. This involves processing and integrating signals from both internal and ...

Dr. Raymond Chan's team from the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has recently developed an innovative Eye-tracking Interoceptive Accuracy Task (EIAT) that is easily and ...

There is a quiet language spoken inside us, a private vocabulary of heartbeats, breath, butterflies in the stomach, and the warmth of joy. Most people know this language instinctively. But for many ...

Scientists are learning how the brain knows what’s happening throughout the body, and how that process might go awry in some psychiatric disorders. By Carl Zimmer Last year, Ardem Patapoutian got a ...

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 ...