Emotion is passing you by: Neural and self-report effects of interoception and mindful attention while imagining self-relevant events

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Event Abstract Back to Event Emotion is passing you by: Neural and self-report effects of interoception and mindful attention while imagining self-relevant events Sarah De Coninck1*, Bart Aben1, 2, Frank Van Overwalle1 and Peter Mariën3, 4 1 Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Belgium 2 Ghent University, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Belgium 3 Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Clinical and Experimental Neurolinguistics, Belgium 4 ZNA Middelheim Hospital, Clinical and Experimental Neurolinguistics, Belgium Few studies have investigated the subcomponents of mindfulness. The current neuroimaging study investigates two components of a short mindfulness training: interoception (turning attention to bodily sensations) and mindful attention (observing these bodily sensations as transient mental events). Twenty-seven healthy participants were trained in three conditions: (1) immersion (immersing themselves in the stressful events), (2) interoception (paying attention to their bodily responses to the stressful events in an accepting way) and (3) mindful attention of interoceptive sensations (regarding these bodily responses as transient). In the scanner participants read and imagined stressful events while adopting these strategies, and afterwards rated their subjective arousal. Participants felt the most relaxed in the mindful attention condition compared to the two other conditions. During mindful attention, the precuneus, caudate nucleus, thalamus, cerebellum, and inferior and middle temporal gyrus showed increased activation. This is in line with mindful attention as a process of switching between focusing on bodily sensations and a meta-perspective on these bodily sensations. During interoception, neural activation was inhibited in the anterior temporoparietal junction, middle cingulate and insula. This is in line with a view on interoception as paying attention to mere bodily sensations Keywords: mindfulness, mindful attention, interoception, emotion processing, imagery, Stressful events Conference: 12th National Congress of the Belgian Society for Neuroscience, Gent, Belgium, 22 May - 22 May, 2017. Presentation Type: Oral Presentation Topic: Cognition and Behavior Citation: De Coninck S, Aben B, Van Overwalle F and Mariën P (2019). Emotion is passing you by: Neural and self-report effects of interoception and mindful attention while imagining self-relevant events. Front. Neurosci. Conference Abstract: 12th National Congress of the Belgian Society for Neuroscience. doi: 10.3389/conf.fnins.2017.94.00061 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 24 Apr 2017; Published Online: 25 Jan 2019. * Correspondence: Ms. Sarah De Coninck, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Brussels, Belgium, sdeconin@vub.ac.be Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Sarah De Coninck Bart Aben Frank Van Overwalle Peter Mariën Google Sarah De Coninck Bart Aben Frank Van Overwalle Peter Mariën Google Scholar Sarah De Coninck Bart Aben Frank Van Overwalle Peter Mariën PubMed Sarah De Coninck Bart Aben Frank Van Overwalle Peter Mariën Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.