Bilateral Rolandic operculum processing underlying heartbeat awareness reflects changes in bodily self-consciousness
| Autor: | Bruno Herbelin, Olaf Blanke, Roberto Martuzzi, Javier Bello-Ruiz, Andrea Serino, Roy Salomon, Maria Laura Blefari |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Male 050105 experimental psychology Interoception Premotor cortex Extrastriate body area Angular gyrus 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Supramarginal gyrus Heart Rate medicine Body Image Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Operculum (brain) General Neuroscience 05 social sciences Multisensory integration Brain Awareness Magnetic Resonance Imaging medicine.anatomical_structure Female Psychology Neuroscience Insula 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | The European journal of neuroscience. 45(10) |
| ISSN: | 1460-9568 |
| Popis: | Exteroceptive bodily signals (including tactile, proprioceptive and visual signals) are important information contributing to self-consciousness. Moreover, prominent theories proposed that visceral signals about internal bodily states are equally or even more important for self-consciousness. Neuroimaging studies have described several brain regions which process signals related to bodily self-consciousness (BSC) based on the integration of exteroceptive signals (e.g. premotor cortex, angular gyrus, supramarginal gyrus and extrastriate body area), and that another brain region, the insula/operculum which is involved in interoception and interoceptive awareness, processes signals critical for self-awareness. Providing evidence for the integration of exteroceptive and interoceptive bodily signals, recent behavioral experiments have demonstrated that the manipulation of interoceptive (e.g. cardiac) signals, coupled with exteroceptive (e.g. visual) signals, also modulates BSC. Does this integration occur within or outside the structures described above? To this end, we adapted a recently designed protocol that uses cardio-visual stimulation to induce altered states of BSC to fMRI. Additionally, we measured neural activity in a classical interoceptive task. We found six brain regions (bilateral Rolandic operculum, bilateral supramarginal gyrus, right frontal inferior operculum and left temporal superior gyrus) that were activated differently during the interoception task as opposed to a control task. The brain regions which showed the highest selectivity for BSC based on our cardio-visual manipulation were found in the bilateral Rolandic operculum. Given our findings, we propose that the Rolandic operculum processes integrated exteroceptive-interoceptive signals that are necessary for interoceptive awareness as well as BSC. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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