Seeing myself through my heart: Cortical processing of a single heartbeat speeds up self-face recognition

Ambrosini, Ettore; Finotti, Gianluca; Azevedo, Ruben T.; Tsakiris, Manos; Ferri, Francesca

doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2019.03.006

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“…We argue that the present findings about the coupling between breathing and self-other voice discrimination may reflect that voice perception and the voluntary action of speaking are coupled with the basic physiological function of breathing, which are absent (or less pronounced) for cardiac physiology. We also did not observe cardiac-dependent differences in reaction times as it has been reported for self-face perception (Ambrosini et al, 2019), arguing that different physiological signals (e.g. respiration and heartbeat) affect self-related processes differently, depending on their intrinsic cyclic differences, their specific functional associations, and likely the investigated sensory modality.…”

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“…We investigated whether self-voice perception would differ in trials occurring during different parts of respiratory (inspiration, expiration) and heartbeat (systole, diastole) cycles. Following previously reported breathing effects on cognition (Nakamura et al, 2018;Perl et al, 2019;Zelano et al, 2016) and heartbeat effects on self-face perception (Ambrosini et al, 2019), we predicted better performance in auditory tasks during inspiration and during systole. Additionally, we explored the effects of BSC modulations on respiration and cardiac phase dependency in self-voice perception.…”

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confidence: 58%

“…Compared to its well-established relationship to bodily self-processing, the impact of interoceptive processes on the perception of self-related stimuli (such as perception of one's own voice or face) has only rarely been investigated (Ambrosini, Finotti, Ruben, Tsakiris, & Ferri, 2019). Accordingly, it is not known whether inspiration-enhanced performance extends to the perception of self-related stimuli (such as perception of one's own face or voice) and whether this is further modulated by sensorimotor stimulations modulating BSC (e.g.…”

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Breathing affects self-other voice discrimination in a bodily state with increased otherness

Orepic¹,

Faivre²,

Rognini³

et al. 2020

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A growing number of studies have focused on identifying cognitive processes that are modulated by interoceptive signals. Here we investigated whether interoception affects self-processing, by assessing changes in self-voice perception as a function of respiratory and cardiac cycles. Considering the fundamental role interoception plays in bodily self-consciousness, we additionally applied conflicting sensorimotor stimulation inducing a state characterized by a loss of self and increased otherness, and investigated its effects in self-other voice perception. Our data reveal that breathing, but not heartbeat, affects self-voice perception, by showing that participants (N = 30) discriminated self-voice from other voices better during inspiration, while being in the state of increased otherness and especially when hearing voices of other people. Loudness judgement of equivalent self-related stimuli was unaffected by breathing. Combining interoception and voice perception with self-monitoring framework, these data extend recent findings on breathing-dependent cognition to self-processing.

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Breathing affects self-other voice discrimination in a bodily state with increased otherness

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Rognini³

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“…At systole, during a heartbeat, arterial baroreceptors signal to the brain, but at diastole, between heartbeats, this pathway is silent. Recent studies have shown that presentation of stimuli at systole decreases memory for words (Garfinkel et al, 2013) amplifies threat processing to fearful faces (Garfinkel et al, 2014) increases the expression of fear-related racial stereotyping (Azevedo, Garfinkel, Critchley, & Tsakiris, 2017) and speeds up self-face recognition (Ambrosini, Finotti, Azevedo, Tsakiris, & Ferri, 2019).…”

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Taking the pulse of social cognition: cardiac afferent activity and interoceptive accuracy modulate emotional egocentricity bias

Mohr¹,

Finotti²,

Villani³

et al. 2019

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At the heart of social cognition is our ability to distinguish between self and other and correctly attribute mental and affective states to their origin. Emotional egocentricity bias (EEB) reflects the tendency to use one’s own emotional state when relating to others. Although interoception underpins our emotional experience, little is known about its role on how we affectively relate to others. Here, we assessed how cardiac interoceptive impact, manipulated by presenting affective stimuli across different phases of the cardiac cycle coupled with trait-like levels of interoceptive accuracy, modulate the EEB. Individuals with higher interoceptive accuracy displayed an increased EEB when the other’s emotional state was presented at the point of maximum interoceptive impact (i.e., at systole), whereas the reverse was observed for individuals with lower interoceptive accuracy. These findings show how interoceptive activity provides the physiological context within which we process other’s emotional states in parallel to ours.

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“…A pertinent question that has engaged the attention of several researchers investigating self-face processing is the reason for this processing advantage ( Ma & Han, 2010 ; Wang et al., 2011 ). Several factors have been pointed out in previous research, for instance, a better structural encoding of self-face ( Keyes & Brady, 2010 ; Keyes et al., 2010 ; Qian et al., 2017 ), a greater familiarity with self-face ( Bortolon et al., 2018 ; Sui et al., 2006 ), or a multimodal representation of self-face ( Ambrosini et al., 2019 ; Apps et al., 2015 ; Northoff, 2011 ; Thirioux et al., 2016 ). Although many studies, including a recent meta-review ( Bortolon & Raffard, 2018 ), observe a significant advantage in identifying self-face, the stage at which self-face affects perceptual processing is not clearly understood.…”

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Early Capture of Attention by Self-Face: Investigation Using a Temporal Order Judgment Task

Jublie

Kumar

2021

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Earlier work on self-face processing has reported a bias in the processing of self-face result in faster response to self-face in comparison to other familiar and unfamiliar faces (termed as self-face advantage or SFA). Even though most studies agree that the SFA occurs due to an attentional bias, there is little agreement regarding the stage at which it occurs. While a large number of studies show self-face influencing processing later at disengagement stage, early event-related potential components show differential activity for the self-face suggesting that SFA occurs early. We address this contradiction using a cueless temporal order judgment task that allows us to investigate early perceptual processing, while bias due to top-down expectation is controlled. A greater shift in point of subjective simultaneity for self-face would indicate a greater processing advantage at early perceptual stage. With help of two experiments, we show an early perceptual advantage for self-face, compared to both a friend’s face and an unfamiliar face (Experiment 1). This advantage is present even when the effect of criterion shift is minimized (Experiment 2). Interestingly, the magnitude of advantage is similar for self-friend and self-unfamiliar pair. The evidence from the two experiments suggests early capture of attention as a likely reason for the SFA, which is present for the self-face but not for other familiar faces.

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Seeing myself through my heart: Cortical processing of a single heartbeat speeds up self-face recognition

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Cited by 23 publications

References 62 publications

Breathing affects self-other voice discrimination in a bodily state with increased otherness

Breathing affects self-other voice discrimination in a bodily state with increased otherness

Taking the pulse of social cognition: cardiac afferent activity and interoceptive accuracy modulate emotional egocentricity bias

Early Capture of Attention by Self-Face: Investigation Using a Temporal Order Judgment Task

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