Interoceptive predictions in the brain

By Lisa Feldman Barrett, Kyle Simmons. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2015

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Intuition suggests that perception follows sensation and therefore bodily feelings originate in the body. However, recent evidence goes against this logic: interoceptive experience may largely reflect limbic predictions about the expected state of the body that are constrained by ascending visceral sensations. In this Opinion article, we introduce the Embodied Predictive Interoception Coding model, which integrates an anatomical model of corticocortical connections with Bayesian active inference principles, to propose that agranular visceromotor cortices contribute to interoception by issuing interoceptive predictions. We then discuss how disruptions in interoceptive predictions could function as a common vulnerability for mental and physical illness.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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From cognitivism to autopoiesis: towards a computational framework for the embodied mind (2016, background): “A closely related approach is the ‘embodied predictive interoceptive coding’ or EPIC model (Barrett and Simmons 2015; Chanes and Barrett 2016).”
Emotion and the Prefrontal Cortex: An Integrative Review (2017, methodology): “Barrett and Simmons (2015) suggest that the sgACC contributes to predictions about changes in physiological arousal that are required to cope with current or upcoming situations.”
More than a feeling: A unified view of stress measurement for population science (2018, background): “The brain is a ‘prediction machine’ that bases its emerging appraisals of stressors on both external stimuli as well as on one’s personal memory bank of what to expect (Barrett and Simmons, 2015).”
Hierarchical Active Inference: A Theory of Motivated Control (2018, background): “Within active inference, motivated control operates to reducing exteroceptive, interoceptive and proprioceptive prediction errors, at all hierarchical levels [15,66 – 69].”
A nice surprise? Predictive processing and the active pursuit of novelty (2018, background): “A clue emerges in work on ‘interoceptive predictive coding’ (see e.g. (Seth 2013; Barrett and Simmons 2015; Pezzulo 2014).”
The graphical brain: Belief propagation and active inference (2017, background): “An alternative perspective rests on the fact that higher (dysgranular) cortical areas often lack a distinct granular layer (Barbas, 2007; Barrett & Simmons, 2015), leading to the speculation that dysgranular cortex may engage in belief updating of categorical or discrete sort.”
Active Inference: A Process Theory (2017, background): “At the same time, there has been a resurgence of enactivism; emphasizing the embodied aspect of perception (O’Regan & No¨e, 2001; Friston, Mattout, & Kilner, 2011; Ballard, Kit, Rothkopf,&Sullivan,2013;Clark,2013;Seth,2013;Barrett&Simmons,2015; Pezzulo,Rigoli,&Friston,2015).”
The theory of constructed emotion: an active inference account of interoception and categorization (2017, positive): “…active inference, or belief propagation (e.g. Rao and Ballard, 1999; Friston, 2010; Seth et al., 2012; Clark, 2013a,b; Hohwy, 2013; Seth, 2013; Barrett and Simmons, 2015; Chanes and Barrett, 2016; Deneve and Jardri, 2016).11 Without an internal model, the brain cannot transform flashes of…”
Gratitude and Subjective Wellbeing: A Proposal of Two Causal Frameworks (2017, background): “2012), and body perception/regulation (Barrett and Simmons 2015).”
Interoception and emotion. (2017, background): “Efferent autonomic responses can thus be viewed as descending ‘interoceptive predictions’ through their effects on peripheral physiology [3,43,44,45 ,46].”
Affective Value in the Predictive Mind (2017, background): “So, while we agree with the models by Seth (Seth 2013), Gu, Hof, Friston & Fan (Gu et al. 2013) or by Barrett & Simmons (Barrett and Simmons 2015) that hold that emotions have to do with somatovisceral prediction errors, we stress that those accounts may not sufficiently explain the causes of emotio”
Active interoceptive inference and the emotional brain (2016, background): “Recently, people have started to cast emotional processing in terms of predictive coding or inference about interoceptive or bodily states (54, 55) (9, 56).”