Lara Maister

Full paper here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Authors: Lara Maister @Laramaister, Anna Ciaunica @AnnaCiaunica

We reveal that interoceptive sensibility (self-reported awareness of internal body states) relates independently to both DP severity and self-face representation accuracy - highlighting deep links between intero-/ exteroceptive body awareness, memory, presence, and self-identity.

How do people with depersonalization (DP) see themselves? Our new study in @CognitionJourn used a "self-portrait" reverse correlation method to show that more severe DP symptoms are linked to highly detailed - but strikingly inaccurate - mental images of the self-face in memory.

@sd_marlow Intriguing! and you would be looking at how disrupted the performance on the task is by viewing the delayed video? Or have I misunderstood?

@Laramaister I'm stuck thinking that any test will require a blindfold, but maybe something that involves recording how people do a task, and then having them repeat the task while the video plays back with a short delay?

Any ideas for a relatively simple behavioural measure of current 'presence' or bodily self-consciousness (ideally body ownership specifically)? Plenty of methods for manipulating ownership/self-location etc. but struggling to find a measure of existing state?

@askemot This is very useful - thank you!

@Laramaister Shameless self-promotion: we recently published a review of procedures and measurements of body ownership: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35…

@gerardosalvato Very interesting, thank you Gerardo!

@Laramaister We used an Implicit Association Task. Have a look here frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

@BignaLen @AnnaCiaunica I think response to threat does indeed get at what we need, although we may not have time or capacity for another physiological measure - but I think it should be added to our list of considerations! Thank you!

@Laramaister @AnnaCiaunica didn't you have the exact same question? I think it's tricky... maybe response to threat?

@PenaudSylvain Yes, as Anna said, we are not manipulating body ownership or presence, but just want a measure of its current state, as it differs from moment to moment and between individuals :)

Is interoception a good target for mental health? Despite the hype on the link between interoception and mental health, there hasn't been a systematic review on psychological interoception-based interventions for mental health. We just published one! 1/5 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pc…

Nice to see this replication and extension of the iBEATS task @Laramaister developed to measure infant interoception (cc @rosie_drysdale @TueMarkus @eblissmoreau @charbonneaujoey ) nature.com/articles/s4159…

Our latest paper @CognitionJourn on interoception and social Influence led by the amazing @marianavonmohr . Have a look at Mariana’s video below explaining what we did and we found . Congratulations @marianavonmohr @GianlucaFinotti & @CrowdCognition

Short video presenting our project Walking with my Heart 😎 ⁦@AnaTajadura⁩ ⁦@Laramaister⁩ In sunny Lisbon 💥 Thank you ⁦@MindandLifeEU⁩ 🙏

Super happy to welcome ⁦@SimonKnogler96⁩ in Lisbon ! Follow Simon for fab work on altered sense of self, somatosensory perception & embodied computations 😎! Simon will work with me & ⁦@Laramaister⁩ ⁦@AnaTajadura⁩ on a fab ⁦@MindandLifeEU⁩ project

Sometimes it’s not you, it’s them 🙄😂😭 #academia

There's a lot of debate about whether a p-factor exists and, if so, what it represents. Just accepted at Psych Med, @JenCheavens, Emil Coccaro, & I tested the unidimensionality of a p-factor and its associations with 5 leading theories of p. psyarxiv.com/bszt4/

So excited about this study being out - and extremely grateful to be involved. I think these results have some hugely important implications!

Our latest research on interoception @PNASNews . Inspired by our earlier work research in infants with @Laramaister and now led by @charbonneaujoey & @eblissmoreau showing first behavioral evidence of cardiac interoceptive ability in rhesus monkeys ! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

I have a new paper out in @PNASNews together with @Laramaister, @manos_tsakiris, and @eblissmoreau! We show that 🐵 have a sense of when their hearts are beating, using a task developed by @Laramaister and @manos_tsakiris for use with human 👶