29 Nov
2017
29 Nov
'17
9:25 a.m.
The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Social Mind Center cordially invites you
to its talk by
Manos
Tsakiris<https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/manos-tsakiris(a1da6a46-e489-456e-b50f-0037747ef226).html>(Department
of Psychology; Royal Holloway, University of London)
Date: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 - 17:00-18:30
Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 St. 7, room 101
Turning the self inside-out: the role of interoception for self- and social-awareness
Modern psychology has long focused on the importance of the body as the basis of the self.
However, this focus concerned the exteroceptive body, that is, the body as perceived from
the outside, as when we recognize ourselves in the mirror. This influential approach has
neglected another important dimension of the body, namely the interoceptive body, that is,
the body as perceived from within, as for example when one feels her racing heart. In
psychology, research on interoception has focused mainly on its role in emotion. Recent
research, however, has attempted to go beyond this approach, aiming instead to show how
interoception and interoceptive awareness serve the unity and stability of the self,
analogous to the role of interoception in maintaining physiological homeostasis. My talk
will consider such findings from studies on infants and adults as a means of going beyond
the division between interoception and exteroception to consider their integration in
self-awareness. This approach provides an alternative to existing psychological theories
of the self insofar it goes beyond the apparent antagonism between the awareness of the
self from the outside and from within, to consider their dynamic integration and inform us
on how humans navigate the challenging balance between inside and out, in terms of both
the individual’s natural (interoception vs. exteroception) and social (self vs. others)
embodiment in the world.
We are looking forward to see you at the talk!
Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events
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