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We are all pretty familiar with how our bodies sense what is going on in the outside world – what we see, hear, touch, taste or smell. But exactly how do our brains sense and react to what is going on ...

Hunger and fullness are other examples. A watertight definition of interoception remains a topic of debate, but the emphasis is on internal signals. "We can gauge whether we're breathless by the sound ...

Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, Vol. 371, No. 1708, Theme issue: Interoception beyond homeostasis: affect, cognition and mental health (19 November 2016), pp. 1-15 (15 pages) ...

Jennifer Murphy has provided consultancy for Biobeats Ltd for the development of tools for measuring interoception. She has received funding from the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust and ESRC for work ...

Interoceptive awareness is the awareness of inner body sensations, involving the sensory process of receiving, accessing, and appraising internal bodily signals (Craig, 2009). Interoceptive awareness ...

Interoception, or the sense of the internal state of the body, is key to the adaptive regulation of our physiological needs. Recent theories contextualize interception within a predictive coding ...

We all know about our five senses and the importance they play in our daily lives: smell, taste, sight, sound and touch. Some scientists say that we have many more that just five senses, and they ...