2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Neural Correlates of Interoceptive Attention/Awareness
| Project/Area Number |
25880004
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Cognitive science
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-08-30 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | fMRI / interoception / brain / spinal cord |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
We investigated the neural correlates of Interoceptive attention in two groups: a group of subjects with several years of Kokyuho experience, where they train attending to their body, and a group of novices.
Our project can be divided into two sub projects, namely spinal study and brain study. Our results showed activation in spinal cord, merely by attending to body parts, while there was no movement or stimulation of the body. However, this happened only in the experienced group. Our brain results showed activations in several parts of the brain. The interesting and overlooked information was the opposite activation pattern in novices and experienced subjects within the supramarginal area. This area was activated for novices and deactivated for experienced subjects during the task. Part of the results were presented in international conferences, OHBM 2014. We published two papers in two international journals within this fiscal year.
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| Free Research Field |
Cognitive Neuroscience
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