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Visceral signals, brain dynamics and subjectivity| title | Visceral signals, brain dynamics and subjectivity |
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| start_date | 2022/10/13 |
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| schedule | 16h-17h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | INS seminar room |
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| summary | The brain monitors internal bodily signals to maintain bodily integrity and to anticipate bodily needs. However, the influence of interoception on brain activity and cognition goes well beyond the regulation of feeding behavior and emotions. Here, I show that brain-viscera coupling in humans is pervasive and accounts for substantial variance in spontaneous brain dynamics, from firing rate to MEG-EEG and BOLD signal, in cortical regions classically associated with the perception (of the external world) - cognition - action loop. The monitoring of internal organs might also contribute to the neural definition of the organism, i.e. the simplest biological definition of the self. I propose and experimentally test the hypothesis that the neural monitoring of visceral organs contribute to subjective experience, which cannot exist without a simple self, i.e. the subject of experience. |
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| responsibles | Taverna |
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| submitted | published | | 2022/11/30 16:08 UTC |
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