Slide outlining the interoception field’s construct validity crisis, research challenges, and a topic-modeling solution.
Graphs show rapid growth of interoception research topics, with cardiac interoception becoming dominant.
Graphs show rising topic diversity but declining coherence in interoception research over time.
One presentation at the 13th #MindBrainBody caught my attention.
Sixun Hou (Cambridge) mapped a century of interoception research using topic modelling.
The field is expanding rapidly, yet conceptual coherence is declining, suggesting fragmentation beneath apparent convergence.
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