Interoception, alexithymia, and motor congruency: Psychological drivers of body ownership in virtual reality.
Perception May 13, 2026 Sarune Savickaite, Mitra Gupta, Dharshini Kannan
Alexithymia, a personality trait marked by difficulty in identifying and describing emotions, is associated with differences in interoception - the ability to perceive and interpret internal bodily signals. Interoception plays a key role in forming a coherent sense of self and contributes to body ownership, the feeling that one's body belongs to oneself. This study explored how interoception...