Abstract:

The increased heartbeat perception has been suggested to play a key role in state anxiety, trait anxiety, anxiety sensitivity and clinical anxiety disorders. Heartbeat perception has become one of the main breakthrough points in the research of interoceptive awareness. The research progress of methods for the assessment of heartbeat perception, neural network and abnormal heartbeat perception associated with anxiety disorders is reviewed in this paper.

Key words: anxiety, heartbeat perception, anxiety sensitivity, state anxiety, trait anxiety