What makes life good or bad? One answer to that question is that positive and negative feelings are at the core of happiness and its opposite. That leads to the question of what feelings are and how the brain produces them.

In this video, I’m going to discuss a fascinating paper published in February 2024 about the neuroscience of bodily and emotional feelings. The paper is called “The Neurobiology of Interoception and Affect,” by Mallory J. Feldman, Eliza Bliss-Moreau, and Kristen A. Lindquist, published in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

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The paper:

Feldman, M. J., Bliss-Moreau, E., & Lindquist, K. A. (2024). The neurobiology of interoception and affect. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38395706/

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