Emotional Ignorance: Lost and found in the science of emotion

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Other brain-imaging studies indicate that people scoring high in alexithymia show reduced activity in brain areas associated with emotion regulation and self-related thoughts. For example, a 2013 study by researchers at three universities in Germany found that individuals with alexithymia have less gray matter in the anterior insula, which helps to govern emotions as well as interoception. This lesser-known sense encompasses the perception of one's internal bodily states, such as hunger pangs or an accelerating heartbeat. The same neural processes that underlie interoception, it seems, can also explain the ability to detect and decipher emotions.

Lost and Found in the Science of Emotion

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