The effects of interoception on memory and reasoning; Studies in the field of cognitive neuroscience and aging

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26350990
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Basic / Social brain science
• Research Institution: Keio University
• Principal Investigator: TERASAWA Yuri 慶應義塾大学, 文学部(日吉), 助教 (30585790)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 内受容感覚 / 感情 / 認知機能 / 脳損傷 / 島皮質 / 加齢

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The research aimed to understand the relationship between interoceptive accuracy, cognitive functions, emotion recognition and neural mechanisms underlying these processing. We focused on age related changes in cognitive functions and emotion for this purpose. Participants from 50s to 70s were involved the research and completed some tasks regarding interoceptive accuracy, emotion recognition, attention and memory. Also, we took their functional and anatomical MRI and examined the association between behavioral performance and its neural mechanism. Though we found the association between interoception and emotion similar to younger population, clear associations between interoception and some cognitive functions, such as working memory or attention, were not observed.

Free Research Field

認知神経科学