Listen to your inner body: embodied emotions in predictive neuroscience and traditional East Asian medicine
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience April 20, 2026 Seoyoung Lee, Seok-In Yoon, Hsien-Yin Liao et al.
The self is increasingly conceptualized as an embodied, predictive process in contemporary cognitive and affective neuroscience. The brain continually infers the causes of both exteroceptive and interoceptive signals in order to minimize prediction error and maintain allostatic balance. Within this framework, emotion can be understood as an inference about changes in bodily states. Parallel...