Using appropriate stimuli to evoke emotions is especially important for researching emotion.
Psychologists have provided several standardized affective stimulus databases—such as …

Anticipation of pain engenders anxiety and fear, potentially shaping pain perception and
governing bodily responses such as peripheral vasomotion through the sympathetic nervous …

Interoceptive awareness (IA), the subjective and conscious perception of visceral and
physiological signals from the body, has been associated with functions of cortical and subcortical …

Previous studies have suggested that the posterior parietal cortices and premotor areas are
involved in mental image transformation. However, it remains unknown whether these …

Background Interoception, the neural sensing of visceral signals, and interoceptive awareness
(IA), the conscious perception of interoception, are crucial for life survival functions and …

Brain activity associated with pain perception has been revealed by numerous PET and fMRI
studies over the past few decades. These findings helped to establish the concept of the …

In clinical practice, subjective pain evaluations, eg, the visual analogue scale and the numeric
rating scale, are generally employed, but these are limited in terms of their ability to detect …

Background Different perspectives are needed to understand the pathophysiology of
burning mouth syndrome (BMS), including physiological and psychological standpoints. The …

Spatial image transformation of the self-body is a fundamental function of visual perspective-taking.
Recent research underscores the significance of intero-exteroceptive information …

Interoception plays an important role in emotion processing. However, the neurobiological
substrates of the relationship between visceral responses and emotional experiences remain …