Week 48 - Embodied Cognition

Question 1

What is interoception? (Monti et al. 2021)

Answer 1

Interoception is the sense of internal physiological signals, such as heartbeats, breaths, and gastric contractions, informing us about the body’s homeostatic condition.

Question 2

What does it mean to say the sense of self is “multi-faceted”? (Monti et al. 2021)

Answer 2

The sense of self is “multi-faceted” because it includes material, social, and spiritual layers, which are interconnected and influenced by interoception.

Question 3

What are the three aspects of the “material self” or corporeal awareness? (Monti et al. 2021)

Answer 3

The three aspects are the awareness of possessing a body (sense of body ownership), the ability to control its movements (sense of agency), and the sense of being physically located within it (sense of body location).

Question 4

What is the “embreathment illusion”? (Monti et al. 2021)

Answer 4

The embreathment illusion involves participants experiencing self-identification with a virtual body that synchronizes with their breathing, emphasizing the role of respiratory signals in body awareness.