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Extending predictive processing to the body: Emotion as interoceptive inference

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2013

Anil K. Seth  and
Hugo D. Critchley
Anil K. Seth
Affiliation:
Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QJ, United Kingdom. a.k.seth@sussex.ac.uk www.anilseth.com Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QJ, United Kingdom
Hugo D. Critchley
Affiliation:
Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QJ, United Kingdom. a.k.seth@sussex.ac.uk www.anilseth.com Department of Psychiatry, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton BN1 9QJ, United Kingdom. H.Critchley@bsms.ac.uk www.sussex.ac.uk/sackler/
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Abstract

The Bayesian brain hypothesis provides an attractive unifying framework for perception, cognition, and action. We argue that the framework can also usefully integrate interoception, the sense of the internal physiological condition of the body. Our model of “interoceptive predictive coding” entails a new view of emotion as interoceptive inference and may account for a range of psychiatric disorders of selfhood.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , June 2013 , pp. 227 - 228
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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