Patric Bach

This study shows that false cardiac feedback can alter pain perception and anticipatory heart rate, demonstrating the role of interoceptive inference in shaping both perception and physiological responses.

This study shows that expecting pain increases perceived heart rate, even when actual heart rate does not change, revealing an interoceptive illusion driven by threat expectations.

The paper shows that mental imagery induces perceptual biases similar to predictive perception of observed actions, distorting judgments toward imagined action goals.