Neural correlates of interoception: Effects of interoceptive focus and relationship to dimensional measures of body awareness

Investigation of neural mechanisms of interoception when healthy individuals attended to their heartbeat and skin temperature and the relationship between neural activity during interoceptions and individual differences in self‐reported IS using the Multidimensional Scale of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA) suggests that self‐rated interoceptive sensibility is related to altered activation in regions involved in monitoring body state.