Are some people more their bodies than others ? A question inspired by a quote from #IrisMurdoch. Short answer, yes ! See #interoception & #exteroception. A talk I gave at the wonderful @royalsociety.org symposium 'From being to identity: analysis and synthesis of the self' tinyurl.com/bdf8kcap
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November 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Are some people more their bodies than others ? A question inspired by a quote from #IrisMurdoch. Short answer, yes ! See #interoception & #exteroception. A talk I gave at the wonderful @royalsociety.org symposium 'From being to identity: analysis and synthesis of the self' tinyurl.com/bdf8kcap
New primer in Cell from Patrick Haggard & @mattlongo.bsky.social
Somatosensation and the sense of self: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
#interoception #exteroception #affect #neuroskyence
Somatosensation and the sense of self: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
#interoception #exteroception #affect #neuroskyence
Somatosensation and the sense of self
In this primer, Patrick Haggard and Matthew Longo consider how sensory signals from
receptors throughout the body are integrated to produce the sense of a coherent, continuous,
sentient body that form...
www.cell.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
New primer in Cell from Patrick Haggard & @mattlongo.bsky.social
Somatosensation and the sense of self: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
#interoception #exteroception #affect #neuroskyence
Somatosensation and the sense of self: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
#interoception #exteroception #affect #neuroskyence
you'd get your heatmapped <IOD Spectrum Wheel> with your diagnosis, using categories like
▪️Proprioception
▪️Exteroception
▪️Interoception
▪️Executive Functioning
▪️Emotional Intensity
▪️Communication Differences
▪️Relationship Differences
▪️Stims
▪️SPINS
like this but showing your global neurospicy profile
▪️Proprioception
▪️Exteroception
▪️Interoception
▪️Executive Functioning
▪️Emotional Intensity
▪️Communication Differences
▪️Relationship Differences
▪️Stims
▪️SPINS
like this but showing your global neurospicy profile
November 12, 2024 at 1:41 AM
you'd get your heatmapped <IOD Spectrum Wheel> with your diagnosis, using categories like
▪️Proprioception
▪️Exteroception
▪️Interoception
▪️Executive Functioning
▪️Emotional Intensity
▪️Communication Differences
▪️Relationship Differences
▪️Stims
▪️SPINS
like this but showing your global neurospicy profile
▪️Proprioception
▪️Exteroception
▪️Interoception
▪️Executive Functioning
▪️Emotional Intensity
▪️Communication Differences
▪️Relationship Differences
▪️Stims
▪️SPINS
like this but showing your global neurospicy profile
So from my perspective, interoception and exteroception aren’t fundamentally different. The data for both go to the cortex, where they contribute to the world-model. AND they both also go to the hypothalamus & brainstem, where they trigger innate reflexes & reactions, including reward signals.
April 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
So from my perspective, interoception and exteroception aren’t fundamentally different. The data for both go to the cortex, where they contribute to the world-model. AND they both also go to the hypothalamus & brainstem, where they trigger innate reflexes & reactions, including reward signals.
1.) PhD candidate in Cognitive Psychology, coordinator of @aliusresearch.bsky.social.
2.) The Viscereality project augments breathwork by linking interoception to exteroception via psychedelic biofeedback in VR. www.aliusresearch.org/viscereality...
3.) The (Futurological) Congress [Film/Book]
2.) The Viscereality project augments breathwork by linking interoception to exteroception via psychedelic biofeedback in VR. www.aliusresearch.org/viscereality...
3.) The (Futurological) Congress [Film/Book]
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Quote this post and tell us:
1) What you do in the field
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November 26, 2024 at 12:07 PM
1.) PhD candidate in Cognitive Psychology, coordinator of @aliusresearch.bsky.social.
2.) The Viscereality project augments breathwork by linking interoception to exteroception via psychedelic biofeedback in VR. www.aliusresearch.org/viscereality...
3.) The (Futurological) Congress [Film/Book]
2.) The Viscereality project augments breathwork by linking interoception to exteroception via psychedelic biofeedback in VR. www.aliusresearch.org/viscereality...
3.) The (Futurological) Congress [Film/Book]
And again, subjectively alcohol effects of light-headedness are predicted by changes in interoception (and importantly, not exteroception!). The same happens with anticipated alcohol effects, this time measured a couple weeks prior to the study.
January 16, 2024 at 4:14 PM
And again, subjectively alcohol effects of light-headedness are predicted by changes in interoception (and importantly, not exteroception!). The same happens with anticipated alcohol effects, this time measured a couple weeks prior to the study.
Hab auf dem Fahrrad Richtung Arbeit viel zu intensiv über Enteroception vs Exteroception nachgedacht, bzw dass es konsequent neural gesehen das Gleiche ist. Schreib ich später dazu, jetzt work work work
October 29, 2024 at 9:01 AM
Hab auf dem Fahrrad Richtung Arbeit viel zu intensiv über Enteroception vs Exteroception nachgedacht, bzw dass es konsequent neural gesehen das Gleiche ist. Schreib ich später dazu, jetzt work work work
[reading a book]
character: describes themselves as knowing something as well as they know their own body
me, with my dysphoria, chronic pain and illness, alexithymia, poor interoception, poor exteroception....: 👀
character: describes themselves as knowing something as well as they know their own body
me, with my dysphoria, chronic pain and illness, alexithymia, poor interoception, poor exteroception....: 👀
August 15, 2024 at 7:11 AM
[reading a book]
character: describes themselves as knowing something as well as they know their own body
me, with my dysphoria, chronic pain and illness, alexithymia, poor interoception, poor exteroception....: 👀
character: describes themselves as knowing something as well as they know their own body
me, with my dysphoria, chronic pain and illness, alexithymia, poor interoception, poor exteroception....: 👀
2/n We try to address new questions about if and how #autonomic functioning, the coordination of #interoception and exteroception, #lifestyle and #dietary choices, #gut #microbiome composition, #hormonal cycles, and #inflammation can impact behaviour, general #health and #wellbeing.
July 9, 2025 at 7:48 AM
2/n We try to address new questions about if and how #autonomic functioning, the coordination of #interoception and exteroception, #lifestyle and #dietary choices, #gut #microbiome composition, #hormonal cycles, and #inflammation can impact behaviour, general #health and #wellbeing.
Francesco Fuentes, Serigne Diagne, Zachary Kingston, Laura H. Blumenschein
Exteroception through Proprioception Sensing through Improved Contact Modeling for Soft Growing Robots
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10694
Exteroception through Proprioception Sensing through Improved Contact Modeling for Soft Growing Robots
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10694
July 16, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Francesco Fuentes, Serigne Diagne, Zachary Kingston, Laura H. Blumenschein
Exteroception through Proprioception Sensing through Improved Contact Modeling for Soft Growing Robots
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10694
Exteroception through Proprioception Sensing through Improved Contact Modeling for Soft Growing Robots
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10694
I also think there’s a sense of balance, but I don’t think ‘balance’ is the thing that it senses in terms of being the object of the sensory experience. But then I also disagree about thermoception, so I think we’re conceiving of these senses differently—interception versus exteroception?
September 26, 2024 at 8:49 PM
I also think there’s a sense of balance, but I don’t think ‘balance’ is the thing that it senses in terms of being the object of the sensory experience. But then I also disagree about thermoception, so I think we’re conceiving of these senses differently—interception versus exteroception?
Francesco Fuentes, Serigne Diagne, Zachary Kingston, Laura H. Blumenschein: Exteroception through Proprioception Sensing through Improved Contact Modeling for Soft Growing Robots https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10694 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.10694 https://arxiv.org/html/2507.10694
July 16, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Francesco Fuentes, Serigne Diagne, Zachary Kingston, Laura H. Blumenschein: Exteroception through Proprioception Sensing through Improved Contact Modeling for Soft Growing Robots https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10694 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.10694 https://arxiv.org/html/2507.10694
Another excellent talk from @mtsakiris.bsky.social, discussing the origins of selfhood and the interoceptive body as the first prior. Combining exteroception and interoception to understand the sense of self - what more could you ask for? 😉 #selfRS2025
May 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Another excellent talk from @mtsakiris.bsky.social, discussing the origins of selfhood and the interoceptive body as the first prior. Combining exteroception and interoception to understand the sense of self - what more could you ask for? 😉 #selfRS2025
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🔓 Loescher, M., Haggard, P., & Tallon-Baudry, C. (2025, June 25). Interoception vs. exteroception: Cardiac interoception competes with tactile perception, yet also facilitates self-relevance encoding [Preprint]. bioRxiv. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🔓 Loescher, M., Haggard, P., & Tallon-Baudry, C. (2025, June 25). Interoception vs. exteroception: Cardiac interoception competes with tactile perception, yet also facilitates self-relevance encoding [Preprint]. bioRxiv. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Interoception vs. Exteroception: Cardiac interoception competes with tactile perception, yet also facilitates self-relevance encoding
Internal bodily signals, notably the heartbeat, influence our perception of the external world - but the nature of this influence remains unclear. One line of evidence (Competition) indicates that…
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July 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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🔓 Loescher, M., Haggard, P., & Tallon-Baudry, C. (2025, June 25). Interoception vs. exteroception: Cardiac interoception competes with tactile perception, yet also facilitates self-relevance encoding [Preprint]. bioRxiv. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🔓 Loescher, M., Haggard, P., & Tallon-Baudry, C. (2025, June 25). Interoception vs. exteroception: Cardiac interoception competes with tactile perception, yet also facilitates self-relevance encoding [Preprint]. bioRxiv. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Interoception vs. Exteroception: Cardiac interoception competes with tactile perception, yet also facilitates self-relevance encoding https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.25.660685v1
June 28, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Interoception vs. Exteroception: Cardiac interoception competes with tactile perception, yet also facilitates self-relevance encoding https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.25.660685v1
I really enjoyed reading this extremely well-written and provocative piece on #interoception If I understood correctly, in contrast to most exteroception, interoception is slower, coarser, more compressed, and more integrated. Interested what the authors think about graviception as interoception
Excited to finally share this paper, nearly 5 years in the making! In it, me and co-authors share our thoughts on how (and to what extent) signals from the body map onto affective feelings. Writing this definitely brought forth more questions than answers! authors.elsevier.com/c/1ieTJ4sIRv...
February 23, 2024 at 11:20 PM
I really enjoyed reading this extremely well-written and provocative piece on #interoception If I understood correctly, in contrast to most exteroception, interoception is slower, coarser, more compressed, and more integrated. Interested what the authors think about graviception as interoception
We measured individual differences in cardiac 🫀 and respiratory 🫁 interoception, and auditory 👂 exteroception using advanced psychophysical techniques, which dissect performance across:
✅ Sensitivity
✅ Precision
✅ Confidence
✅ Metacognition
✅ Sensitivity
✅ Precision
✅ Confidence
✅ Metacognition
March 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
We measured individual differences in cardiac 🫀 and respiratory 🫁 interoception, and auditory 👂 exteroception using advanced psychophysical techniques, which dissect performance across:
✅ Sensitivity
✅ Precision
✅ Confidence
✅ Metacognition
✅ Sensitivity
✅ Precision
✅ Confidence
✅ Metacognition
New words for the day: proprioception, interception, exteroception vs compartmentalising, suppression, or running away. Brb, updating OS.
Article: www.readcube.com/articles/10....
Article: www.readcube.com/articles/10....
Somatic experiencing: using interoception and proprioception as core elements of trauma therapy
www.readcube.com
October 26, 2023 at 3:16 AM
New words for the day: proprioception, interception, exteroception vs compartmentalising, suppression, or running away. Brb, updating OS.
Article: www.readcube.com/articles/10....
Article: www.readcube.com/articles/10....
The SSRI reduced viscerosensory (posterior insula and surrounding) and integrative (amygdala) interoceptive processing of attended stomach sensation on BOTH sides of the brain (relative to effects on exteroception). 4/10
June 6, 2024 at 6:17 PM
The SSRI reduced viscerosensory (posterior insula and surrounding) and integrative (amygdala) interoceptive processing of attended stomach sensation on BOTH sides of the brain (relative to effects on exteroception). 4/10
1. Fear/anxeity: we see the amygdala as a mediator between interoception and exteroception. The central amygdala acts as a Bayesian regulator to inform affective states. It sends predictions to the basolateral amygdala, which allows efficient perception. [4/8]
December 18, 2023 at 12:03 PM
1. Fear/anxeity: we see the amygdala as a mediator between interoception and exteroception. The central amygdala acts as a Bayesian regulator to inform affective states. It sends predictions to the basolateral amygdala, which allows efficient perception. [4/8]
Interoception vs. Exteroception: Cardiac interoception competes with tactile perception, yet also facilitates self-relevance encoding https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.25.660685v1
June 28, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Interoception vs. Exteroception: Cardiac interoception competes with tactile perception, yet also facilitates self-relevance encoding https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.25.660685v1
Don't use functioning labels & levels. They're vague & unhelpful. Many factors (medication changes, routine disruptions, sleep, the setting, etc) can affect a person's ability to perform daily tasks. Support needs aren't static
#autism #neurodiversity #AutismSky
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#autism #neurodiversity #AutismSky
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December 24, 2024 at 1:02 AM
Don't use functioning labels & levels. They're vague & unhelpful. Many factors (medication changes, routine disruptions, sleep, the setting, etc) can affect a person's ability to perform daily tasks. Support needs aren't static
#autism #neurodiversity #AutismSky
Source: Neurodiversally Unbroken
#autism #neurodiversity #AutismSky
Source: Neurodiversally Unbroken