title: Extending predictive processing to the body: emotion as interoceptive inference.
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.
authors.affiliation: Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QJ, United Kingdom. a.k.seth@sussex.ac.uk
authors.forename: Anil K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Seth
authors.forename: Hugo D
authors.initials: HD
authors.lastname: Critchley
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D019336:Cognitive Science / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D010465:Perception / Q000502:physiology*