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Interoception as modeling, allostasis as control
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The brain regulates the body by anticipating its needs and attempting to meet them before they arise – a process called allostasis. Allostasis requires a model of the changing sensory conditions within the body, a process called interoception. In this paper, we examine how interoception may provide performance feedback for allostasis. We suggest studying allostasis in terms of control theory, reviewing control theory’s applications to related issues in physiology, motor control, and decision making. We synthesize these by relating them to the important properties of allostatic regulation as a control problem. We then sketch a novel formalism for how the brain might perform allostatic control of the viscera by analogy to skeletomotor control, including a mathematical view on how interoception acts as performance feedback for allostasis. Finally, we suggest ways to test implications of our hypotheses.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Sennesh, E., Theriault, J., Brooks, D., van de Meent, J.-W., Barrett, L. F., & Quigley, K. S.
- Affiliations
- Northeastern University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Sennesh, Eli
- Venue
- Biological Psychology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2022-01
- Volume
- 167
- Pages
- 108242
- ISSN
- 0301-0511
- PMC
- PMC9270659
- OpenAlex
- W4200245063
- Semantic Scholar
- cd95cee7cfaf5949d143cbfd28deb54848869602
- Cited by
- 107
- References
- 206
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- 2026: 14 · 2025: 30 · 2024: 26 · 2023: 22 · 2022: 15
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- doi.org/10.15223/policy-017 (stm-asf)
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- Funders
- National Science Foundation (1835309)
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH113234)
- National Cancer Institute (U01CA193632)
- Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (W911NF-16–1-0191)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Embodied and Extended Cognition
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Keywords
- interoception, allostasis, control theory, performance feedback, physiological control, motor control, decision-making, brain modeling
- MeSH terms
- Brain, Humans, Allostasis, Interoception
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