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19 - The Interoceptive System: Implications for Cognition, Emotion, and Health

from Topical Psychophysiology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

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Sarah N. Garfinkel ,
Hugo D. Critchley  and
Olga Pollatos
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John T. Cacioppo ,
Louis G. Tassinary  and
Gary G. Berntson
John T. Cacioppo
Affiliation:
University of Chicago
Louis G. Tassinary
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Texas A & M University
Gary G. Berntson
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Ohio State University
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Handbook of Psychophysiology , pp. 427 - 443
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