@article{PollatosGramann2011,
  author    = {Pollatos, Olga and Gramann, Klaus},
  title     = {Electrophysiological evidence of early processing deficits in alexithymia},
  series = {Biological psychology},
  volume    = {87},
  journal   = {Biological psychology},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  address   = {Amsterdam},
  issn      = {0301-0511},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.biopsycho.2011.02.016},
  pages     = {113 -- 121},
  year      = {2011},
  abstract  = {Alexithymia describes difficulties to identify and describe one's emotions. Previous research focused on difficulties associated with the later processing stages of appraisal in alexithymia. We tested whether early processing deficits are apparent in alexithymic persons and whether these abnormalities contribute to later processing difficulties. 20 participants were selected and identified as either having high (HDA) or low (LDA) degrees of alexithymia. IAPS pictures were presented while EEG was recorded. For HDA subjects processing of emotional pictures was accompanied by reduced P1 amplitudes most pronounced for pleasant and neutral pictures. In response to unpleasant pictures the P3 amplitudes were reduced. These amplitude modulations were predicted only by one alexithymia facet. P1 amplitudes systematically covaried with P3 amplitudes supporting the assumption that deficits in early emotional processing contribute to later processing deficits.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{HerbertPollatos2012,
  author    = {Herbert, Beate M. and Pollatos, Olga},
  title     = {The body in the mind On the relationship between interoception and embodiment},
  series = {Topics in cognitive science},
  volume    = {4},
  journal   = {Topics in cognitive science},
  number    = {4},
  publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell},
  address   = {Hoboken},
  issn      = {1756-8757},
  doi       = {10.1111/j.1756-8765.2012.01189.x},
  pages     = {692 -- 704},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {The processing, representation, and perception of bodily signals (interoception) plays an important role for human behavior. Theories of embodied cognition hold that higher cognitive processes operate on perceptual symbols and that concept use involves reactivations of the sensory-motor states that occur during experience with the world. Similarly, activation of interoceptive representations and meta-representations of bodily signals supporting interoceptive awareness are profoundly associated with emotional experience and cognitive functions. This article gives an overview over present findings and models on interoception and mechanisms of embodiment and highlights its relevance for disorders that are suggested to represent a translation deficit of bodily states into subjective feelings and self-awareness.},
  language  = {en}
}