Murphy Jennifer, Bird Geoffrey
Department of Psychology, University of Surrey, United Kingdom.
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Centre for Research in Autism and Education, Institute of Education, University College London, United Kingdom.
Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2025 May;172:106126. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106126. Epub 2025 Mar 25.
With growing interest in interoceptive training to enhance the perception of internal bodily signals, there is a need to consider the mechanisms by which training may improve performance on tests of interoceptive accuracy (i.e., tests designed to measure how well signals from the body can be perceived). In this brief paper we use the example of cardiac interoceptive accuracy training to outline several possible mechanisms by which such training may result in improvement on tests of cardiac interoceptive accuracy. We show that under many of these mechanisms, evidence of improvement on tasks that claim to measure cardiac interoceptive accuracy does not reflect improvement in the perception of cardiac signals. We provide several recommendations to mitigate the potential influence of factors unrelated to interoceptive accuracy, enabling it to be determined that an improvement in interoceptive accuracy has occurred following training.
随着人们对用于增强内部身体信号感知的内感受性训练的兴趣日益浓厚，有必要考虑训练可能提高内感受准确性测试表现（即旨在测量身体信号能被感知程度的测试）的机制。在这篇简短的论文中，我们以心脏内感受准确性训练为例，概述了这种训练可能导致心脏内感受准确性测试表现提高的几种可能机制。我们表明，在许多这些机制下，声称测量心脏内感受准确性的任务表现改善的证据并不反映心脏信号感知的改善。我们提供了几条建议，以减轻与内感受准确性无关的因素的潜在影响，从而能够确定训练后内感受准确性是否有所提高。
