Increasing individuals' awareness of their own body signals can lead to improved interoception, enabling the brain to estimate current body states more accurately and in a timely manner. However, certain body signals, such as eye movements, often go unnoticed by individuals themselves. This study aimed to test the hypothesis that providing eye-movement-correlated tactile feedback on the body enhances individuals' awareness of their attentive states, subsequently improving attention. Our results demonstrate the effectiveness of such feedback in redirecting and enhancing attention, particularly in the presence of distractions during long-duration tasks. Additionally, we observed that people's gaze behaviors changed in response to the tactile feedback, suggesting an increased self-awareness of current eye movements and attentive states. Ultimately, these changes in gaze behaviors contribute to the modulation of attentive states. Our findings highlight the potential of eye-movement-correlated bodily tactile feedback to increase individuals' self-awareness of their eye movements and attentive states. By providing real-time feedback through tactile stimuli, we can actively engage individuals in regulating their attention and enhancing their overall performance.

翻译：本研究旨在探究增强个体对自身身体信号的感知能力，能否改善其内感受功能，从而帮助大脑更准确、及时地评估当前身体状态。然而，某些身体信号（如眼球运动）往往被个体自身所忽视。本实验验证了以下假设：在身体上提供与眼动相关的触觉反馈，能增强个体对自身注意状态的感知，并进而改善注意力。结果表明，这种反馈能有效地重新引导和增强注意力，尤其在需要长时间完成任务且存在干扰因素时效果显著。此外，我们观察到，个体的凝视行为会随触觉反馈发生变化，提示其对当前眼动及注意状态的自我意识有所提升。最终，这些凝视行为的变化有助于调节注意状态。本研究的发现凸显了眼动相关身体触觉反馈在提升个体对自身眼动及注意状态的自我意识方面的潜力。通过触觉刺激提供实时反馈，可主动引导个体调节注意力并提升整体表现。