Research-led explanations of human capacity, learning and technological change. Start with the foundations, then follow the evidence and related ideas as the Library grows.
A methodological map of performance tasks, self-report, proprioception, body ownership, movement and experience sampling, and why no single paradigm measures ‘the body’ as one capacity
What MAIA and MAIA-2 measure across eight dimensions of self-reported interoceptive awareness, how they were validated, and why their scores must not be confused with objective sensory accuracy
Why heartbeat counting, tracking and discrimination tasks became central to interoception research, what they actually measure, and why no cardiac task should stand in for the whole interior body
How a research programme linked bodily regulation, feeling, decision-making and self, and why somatic markers should be treated as testable mechanisms rather than intuition mythology
A research profile of Henrik Ehrsson’s work on multisensory body ownership, bodily illusions, causal inference and the neuroscience of the embodied self
A research profile of Sahib Khalsa’s work on heart-brain, lung-brain and gut-brain interoception, anxiety, experimental medicine and the measurement problem in clinical translation
A research profile of Sarah Garfinkel’s work on heart-brain interactions, interoceptive dimensions, emotion and clinical translation, with clear limits on what cardiac tasks can establish
Eugene Gendlin’s felt-sense concept, its relationship to psychotherapy process and body awareness, and the evidence boundary between meaningful embodied experience and claims of bodily truth
How physiological state, interoception and action readiness can shape choice, why bodily information sometimes helps and sometimes misleads, and what responsible judgment requires
Why thinking depends on bodies, action and environments, where embodiment claims are strongest, and why the field is not one theory or a rejection of representation