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ScienceDaily (Jan. 7, 2011) — A new study, led by Dr Manos Tsakiris from Royal Holloway, University of London, suggests that the way we experience the internal state of our body may also influence how we perceive our body from the outside, as for example in the mirror.
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Psychologists measured how good people are at feeling their body from within by asking them to count their heartbeats over a few minutes. They then measured how good people are at perceiving their own body-image from the outside by using a procedure that tricks them into feeling that a fake, rubber hand is their own hand.心理学空间tv&D\1z5\A

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Dr Manos Tsakiris from the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway says: "We perceive our own bodies in many different ways. We can look at our bodies, feel touch on our bodies, and also feel our body from within, such as when we experience our hearts racing or butterflies in our stomachs. It seems that a stable perception of the body from the outside, what is known as "body image," is partly based on our ability to accurately perceive our body from within, such as our heartbeat."
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The study, which was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, UK, is important as it may shed new light into pathologies of body-perception; exploring how certain people feel about or perceive the internal states of their body may help us understand why they perceive their body-image in distorted ways such as those who suffer from anorexia or body dysmorphia.心理学空间X;m,H!Ct-QxZWFL

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The above story is reprinted (with editorial adaptations by ScienceDaily staff) from materials provided by University of Royal Holloway London, via AlphaGalileo.心理学空间8_9`7cXa"~D+M
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9l @_:Q9XfF0Manos Tsakiris, Ana Tajadura-Jiménez, Marcello Costantini. Just a heartbeat away from one's body: interoceptive sensitivity predicts malleability of body-representations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2011; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2547