Donaghy Rosie, Lisi Matteo, Shinskey Jeanne, Murphy Jennifer
Department of Psychology, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, UK.
Psychophysiology. 2025 Mar;62(3):e70041. doi: 10.1111/psyp.70041.
Models of interoception, the processing of internal bodily signals, highlight infancy as a key period for interoceptive learning. Given the potential importance of this developmental period, there has been increasing focus on the measurement of cardiac interoceptive accuracy in infancy. In this paper, we argue that despite progress in this area, the current methods for assessing cardiac interoceptive accuracy in infancy suffer from many of the same limitations as tasks of cardiac interoceptive accuracy employed in adult samples. To progress work in this area, this paper critically reviews methods of cardiac interoceptive accuracy employed in adults and infants and provides several recommendations for optimizing the measurement of cardiac interoceptive accuracy in infants. These include, but are not limited to, methodological choices regarding the presentation of stimuli, the use of control tasks, the analysis strategy employed, and the importance of considering state effects.
内感受（即对身体内部信号的处理）模型强调婴儿期是内感受学习的关键时期。鉴于这一发育阶段的潜在重要性，人们越来越关注婴儿期心脏内感受准确性的测量。在本文中，我们认为，尽管该领域已取得进展，但目前评估婴儿期心脏内感受准确性的方法存在许多与用于成人样本的心脏内感受准确性任务相同的局限性。为推动该领域的研究进展，本文批判性地回顾了成人和婴儿中使用的心脏内感受准确性方法，并为优化婴儿期心脏内感受准确性的测量提供了若干建议。这些建议包括但不限于关于刺激呈现的方法选择、控制任务的使用、所采用的分析策略以及考虑状态效应的重要性。
