Larissa Blättler

Interoception and Empathy Impact Perspective Taking.

Frontiers in Psychology January 18, 2021 Lukas Heydrich, Francesco Walker, Larissa Blättler et al.

Adopting the perspective of another person is an important aspect of social cognition and has been shown to depend on multisensory signals from one's own body. Recent work suggests that interoceptive signals not only contribute to own-body perception and self-consciousness, but also to empathy. Here we investigated if social cognition - in particular adopting the perspective of another person -...