ArticleJournal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance2016
The specificity of the link between alexithymia, interoception, and imitation.
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- Exploring the autism and functional neurological disorder association: Considerations from biopsychosocial, neuropsychological and computational models.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2026Review
- Social-specific impairment of negative emotion perception in alexithymia.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2022Article
- A network analysis of interoception, self-awareness, empathy, alexithymia, and autistic traits.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2022Article
- Atypical interoception as a common risk factor for psychopathology: A review.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2021Review
- Emotional representations of space vary as a function of peoples' affect and interoceptive sensibility.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Alexithymia and Sensory Processing Sensitivity: Areas of Overlap and Links to Sensory Processing Styles.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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- Interoception is associated with the impact of eye contact on spontaneous facial mimicry.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Interoceptive Abilities in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases and Irritable Bowel Syndrome.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- Atypical bodily self-awareness in vicarious pain responders.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Interoception and Its Interaction with Self, Other, and Emotion Processing: Implications for the Understanding of Psychosocial Deficits in Borderline Personality Disorder.Current psychiatry reports · 2018Review
- Characteristics of brain functional and structural connectivity in alexithymic students.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2018Article
- Disrupted integration of exteroceptive and interoceptive signaling in autism spectrum disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2018Article
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Alexithymia is a subclinical condition traditionally characterized by difficulties identifying and describing one's own emotions. Recent formulations of alexithymia, however, suggest that the condition may result from a generalized impairment in the perception of all bodily signals ("interoception"). Interoceptive accuracy has been associated with a variety of deficits in social cognition, but recently with an improved ability to inhibit the automatic tendency to imitate the actions of others. The current study tested the consequences for social cognition of the hypothesized association between alexithymia and impaired interoception by examining the relationship between alexithymia and the ability to inhibit imitation. If alexithymia is best characterized as a general interoceptive impairment, then one would predict that alexithymia would have the same relationship with the ability to control imitation as does interoceptive accuracy. Forty-three healthy adults completed measures of alexithymia, imitation-inhibition, and as a control, inhibition of nonimitative spatial compatibility. Results revealed the predicted relationship, such that increasing alexithymia was associated with an improved ability to inhibit imitation, and that this relationship was specific to imitation-inhibition. These results support the characterization of alexithymia as a general interoceptive impairment and shed light on the social ability of alexithymic individuals-with implications for the multitude of psychiatric, neurological, and neurodevelopmental disorders associated with high rates of alexithymia. (PsycINFO Database Record
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