EEG ERP Attention and Embodied Consciousness - Interoception, Proprioception, and Zone 2 - Lat Brain Bee Ideas SfN2025
EEG ERP Attention and Embodied Consciousness - Interoception, Proprioception, and Zone 2 - Lat Brain Bee Ideas SfN2025
Consciousness in First Person
I am Consciousness anchored in the body. When I feel my heart racing, when I notice my breathing shift, when I sense the tension in my muscles — I am not just thought, I am a body that speaks. My attention is not only mental focus; it is embodied perception that reminds me I am alive. When I enter Zone 2, I no longer fight or flee: I perceive, I flow, I integrate. Here, my mind becomes body-territory.
1. What is Embodied Attention?
Attention is not just visual or mental focus but the distribution of perceptual energy throughout the body.
Embodied consciousness means our attentional states are modulated by:
Interoception (inner signals: heartbeat, respiration, hunger, pain).
Proprioception (body position and movement in space).
This integration builds the phenomenal field from which emotions, feelings, and decisions emerge.
2. Interoception – sensing from within
Involves monitoring of internal bodily signals: heart rate, respiratory rhythm, body temperature.
Key brain areas: anterior insula and cingulate cortex, linked to the sense of belonging to the body.
In practice: a gamer in competition who notices sweating or rapid heartbeat is experiencing interoception.
Risk: social media and gaming can silence interoception, fostering detachment from the real body.
3. Proprioception – sensing position and movement
The ability to perceive muscles, joints, and balance, supported by peripheral receptors and mapped in the somatosensory cortex.
In practice: VR games or long hours in front of screens may reduce real proprioceptive anchoring, displacing it into “digital territory.”
Risk: reduced proprioceptive awareness → physical isolation and emotional vulnerability.
4. Zone 2 – the space of fruition and contemplation
A physiological state where SpO₂ decreases to 92–94% and CO₂ rises to ~45 mmHg, promoting cerebral vasodilation.
Under these conditions, the EEG shows increased prefrontal activation, reflected in oscillations that support contemplation, critical reorganization, and creativity.
This electrical activation correlates with increased blood flow and oxygenation in the region, although EEG directly measures only bioelectrical dynamics.
In Zone 2, emotions do not hijack attention: they become modulated sensations, allowing the formation of stable feelings.
5. Embodied Attention in Games and Social Media
Digital platforms force attention to migrate toward high-arousal visual and auditory stimuli → reduction of interoceptive and proprioceptive awareness.
Result: partial, unbalanced consciousness, where rapid emotions are overvalued and deeper feelings impoverished.
This traps users in emotional cycles dominated by Rock (automatic reactivity), blocking access to Zone 2.
6. Comparative Frame – Types of Attention
Type of Attention | Bodily Basis | Positive Example | Hijacked Example |
Visual-focal | Eyes + occipital cortex | Studying, critical reading | Infinite scroll on social media |
Auditory cortex | Focused listening to music | Constant notification sounds | |
Interoceptive | Insula + cingulate | Feeling breath and heartbeat | Ignored during long gaming |
Proprioceptive | Somatosensory cortex | Yoga, dance, sports | Loss of body reference in VR |
Zone 2 (integrated) | Prefrontal + body | Contemplation, creativity | Blocked by emotional cycles |
7. Critical Conclusion
Attention is an integrated field of body and mind.
Interoception adds depth to feeling.
Proprioception anchors us in space and movement.
Zone 2 ensures balance and flexibility.
When games and social media hijack the senses, attention becomes fragmented, sustained by quick emotions and shallow narratives.
Teaching adolescents to cultivate embodied attention is essential to protect brain development and enable metacognition, which matures between ages 25 and 35.
True attentional freedom begins in the body, not on the screen.
References
Khalsa, S. S., et al. (2020). Interoception and mental health: A roadmap. Biological Psychiatry.
Park, H. D., & Blanke, O. (2020). Coupling interoceptive and exteroceptive signals in the construction of self-consciousness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
Allen, M., et al. (2021). Proprioceptive processing and embodied cognition. Neuropsychologia.
Berntson, G. G., & Khalsa, S. S. (2021). Neural circuits of interoception. Trends in Neurosciences.
Smith, R., et al. (2022). Attention, interoception, and embodied awareness. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.
Layered Affordances - From Cell Differentiation to Digital Culture - SfN 2025 Lat Brain Bee Ideas
Neurociências Decolonial – Eus Tensionais - Consciência como Movimento que se Percebe Ser - SfN 2025
Neurociencias Decoloniales – Quorum Sensing Humano y Pertenencia - FALAN SfN 2025 Brain Bee Ideas
Decolonial Neuroscience – Human Quorum Sensing and Belonging - SfN 2025 Lat Brain Bee FALAN
Neurociências Decolonial – Quorum Sensing Humano e Pertencimento - SBNeC SfN 2025 Brain Bee Ideas
Neurociencias Decoloniales – Sentimientos como Narrativas Estables - FALAN SfN 2025 Lat Brain Bee
Decolonial Neuroscience – Feelings as Stable Narratives - SBNeC Lat Brain Bee SfN 2025
Neurociências Decolonial – Sentimentos como Narrativas Estáveis - SBNeC SfN 2025
Neurociencias Decoloniales– Anergia y Memorias Aversivas - FALAN SfN2025 Brain Bee Ideias
Decolonial Neuroscience – Anergia and Aversive Memories - FALAN Brain Bee SfN 2025
Decolonial Neuroscience – Anergia e Memórias Aversivas - SBNeC SfN 2025 Brain Bee Ideas
EEG ERP Psicoativos, Responsabilidade e Plasticidade após 35 anos - SBNeC Lat Brain Bee Idea SfN2025
EEG ERP Metacognição, Crítica e Reescrita de Narrativas (25–35 anos) - SBNeC SfN 2024 Lat Brain Bee
EEG ERP Memoria, Emoción y Formación de Narrativas - FALAN Lat Brain Bee SfN2025
EEG ERP Memory, Emotion, and Narrative Formation - FALAN Lat Brain Bee SfN 2025
EEG ERP Memória, Emoção e Formação de Narrativas - SBNeC Lat Brain Bee SfN 2025
EEG ERP Atenção e Consciência Corporificada - Interocepção, Propriocepção e Zona 2 - SBNeC SfN 2025
EEG ERP Largo II - Integración y Narrativa (>900 ms, EEG-DC) - FALAN Lat Brain Bee SfN 2025
EEG ERP Long ERP II - Integration and Narrative (>900 ms, EEG-DC) - Lat Brain Bee SfN 2025
EEG ERP Longo II - Integração e Narrativa (>900 ms, EEG-DC) - SBNeC FALAN SfN 2025
EEG ERP Largo I - Memoria y Decisión (400–900 ms) - FALAN Brain Bee SfN
EEG ERP Long ERP I - Memory and Decision (400–900 ms) - Lat Brain Bee SfN 2025
EEG ERP Longo I - Memória e Decisão (400–900 ms) - SBNeC Lat Brain Bee SfN
EEG ABRs ERP Corto II - Puentes de Atención (200–400 ms) - FALAN Lat Brain Bee SfN 2025
EEG ABRs Short ERPs II - Bridges of Attention (200–400 ms) - FALAN Lat Brain Bee SfN 2025
EEG BERA ERP Curto II - Pontes de Atenção (200–400 ms) - SBNeC Brain Bee SfN 2025
EEG ABRs ERP Corto I - Portones Sensoriales (1–200 ms) - FALAN Lat Brain Bee SfN
EEG ABRs Short ERPs I - Sensory Gates (1–200 ms) - Lat Brain Bee SfN2025
EEG BERA ERP Curto I - Portões Sensoriais (1–200 ms) - SBNeC SfN 2025
EEG Microestados - Marcos de la Mente - FALAN Brain Bee SfN 2025
EEG Microstates - Frames of the Mind - Lat Brain Bee SfN 2025
EEG Microstates - Frames da Mente - Neurociências Decolonial SfN2025
EEG ERP - Volumen Conductor y Corrientes de la Vida - FALAN Brain Bee SfN
EEG ERP - Volume Conductor and Currents of Life - Lat Brain Bee SfN 2025
EEG ERP - Volume Conductor e Correntes da Vida - SBNeC Brain Bee SfN 2025
EEG ERP - Del ADN a la Conciencia Bioeléctrica - FALAN Lat Brain Bee SfN2025
EEG ERP - From DNA to Bioelectrical Consciousness - FALAN Lat Brain Bee SfN
EEG ERP - Do DNA à Consciência Bioelétrica - SBNeC Brain Bee SfN2025
Neuroimagen y temblor neurofisiológico en la enfermedad de Parkinson – FALAN Lat Brain Bee SfN2025
Neuroimaging and Neurophysiological Tremor in Parkinson’s Disease - FALAN Lat Brain Bee SfN 2025
Neuroimagem e tremor neurofisiológico na doença de Parkinson - SBNeC Brain Bee SfN2025
Conectando emoções e ações no cérebro infantil - Decolonial Neurociência SBNeC Brain Bee SfN2025
Quando a Falácia se Veste de Toga - Fux e a Consciência Desviada - Decolonial Neuroscience
A Voz do Corpo-Território Xokleng — Planeta 01 mata Consciências Ancestrais
#Decolonial
#Neuroscience
#SfN
#AffordMind
#DREXcidadão
#EEGDC
#EEGmicroStates
#EEG
#ERP
#P50
#N100
#P100
#N170
#P200
#N200
#N2pc
#MMN
#P300
#P3a
#P3b
#N400
#LPC
#ERN
#FRN
#SPN
#CNV
#PIX
#DREX
