ArticlePerspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science2023
The Role of the Skin in Interoception: A Neglected Organ?
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- Improved interoceptive awareness in professional performers of the traditional Japanese theatrical art "Noh".Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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- The emotional responses to the sounds of organic affective tactile gestures.Psychological research · 2025Article
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- Characteristics of vicarious touch reports in a general population.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Supercritical Carbon Dioxide-Processed Acellular Dermal Matrix Patch for Enhanced Wound Healing.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Human insula neurons respond to simple sounds during passive listening.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Local postural changes elicit extensive and diverse skin stretch around joints, on the trunk and the face.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2025Article
- The contribution of cutaneous thermal signals to bodily self-awareness.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Functional movement disorder is associated with abnormal interoceptive brain activity: a task-based functional MRI study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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- Functional Movement Disorder Is Associated with Abnormal Interoceptive Brain Activity: A Task-based Functional MRI Study.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- Interoception in anxiety, depression, and psychosis: a review.EClinicalMedicine · 2024Review
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Abstract
In the past 2 decades, interoception has received increasing attention in the fields of psychology and cognitive science, as well as neuroscience and physiology. A plethora of studies adopted the perception of cardiac signals as a proxy for interoception. However, recent findings have cast doubt on the methodological and intrinsic validity of the tasks used thus far. Therefore, there is an ongoing effort to improve the existing cardiac interoceptive tasks and to identify novel channels to target the perception of the physiological state of the body. Amid such scientific abundancy, one could question whether the field has been partially neglecting one of our widest organs in terms of dimensions and functions: the skin. According to some views grounded on anatomical and physiological evidence, skin-mediated signals such as affective touch, pain, and temperature have been redefined as interoceptive. However, there is no agreement in this regard. Here, we discuss some of the anatomical, physiological, and experimental arguments supporting the scientific study of interoception by means of skin-mediated signals. We argue that more attention should be paid to the skin as a sensory organ that monitors the bodily physiological state and further propose thermosensation as a particularly attractive model of skin-mediated interoception.
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