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- Mental processes are closely connected to how our body maintains internal balance, with specific pathways influencing brain functions.
- These pathways have a clear anatomical setup and affect psychological and behavioral outcomes in ways that can be understood through evolution.
- The review focuses on how these pathways create biases in perception, cognition, emotion, and behavior, contributing to our sense of self.
Article Abstract
Mental processes and their neural substrates are intimately linked to the homeostatic control of internal bodily state. There are a set of distinct interoceptive pathways that directly and indirectly influence brain functions. The anatomical organization of these pathways and the psychological/behavioral expressions of their influence appear along discrete, evolutionarily conserved dimensions that are tractable to a mechanistic understanding. Here, we review the role of these pathways as sources of biases to perception, cognition, emotion, and behavior and arguably the dynamic basis to the concept of self.
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