Topic: heartbeat counting task

Purpose; We wanted to investigate how brain activation patterns of patients with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) differs from that of the neurotypicals (NT) in the context of perspective- taking for pain situations, and how these characteristics are related to the interoceptive accuracy of patients with ASD. Method; We presented the ASD group (N=17) and NT group (N=20) with pain-related visual situations during the fMRI scan, and ordered them 1) to imagine as if the subjects themselves were experiencing those pain situations (Self-perspective), or 2) to imagine as if a third party was experienc

Integration of visceral-interoceptive signals seems to underlie our physiological experience of time. To further investigate this relationship, we used the non invasive stimulation of the auricular branch of the vagus nerve (taVNS), which, as has been highlighted, has a modulatory effect on several high-level cognitive processes. The vagal system is crucial in regulating the organism's homeostasis and it has broad connections with various cortical and subcortical regions. In our study, healthy subjects were engaged in explicit and implicit temporal tasks across two separate experimental sessio