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Alimentary epigenetics: a developmental psychobiological systems view of the perception of hunger, thirst and satiety

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HARSHAW, C·2008·Developmental Review
DOI 10.1016/j.dr.2008.08.001PMC PMC2654322
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Hunger, thirst and satiety have an enormous influence on cognition, behavior and development, yet we often take for granted that they are simply inborn or innate. Converging data and theory from both comparative and human domains, however, supports the conclusion that the phenomena hunger, thirst and satiety are not innate but rather emerge probabilistically as a function of experience during individual development. The metatheoretical perspective provided by developmental psychobiological systems theory provides a useful framework for organizing and synthesizing findings related to the development of the perception of hunger, thirst and satiety, or alimentary interoception. It is argued that neither developmental psychology nor the psychology of eating and drinking have adequately dealt with the ontogeny of alimentary interoception and that a more serious consideration of the species-typical developmental system of food and fluid intake and the many modifications that have been made therein is likely necessary for a full understanding of both alimentary and emotional development.

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  • A range of existing perceptual sensitivity measures are in fact also measures of interoceptive ability, including tests of taste, hunger, thirst, satiety, oral temperature, muscular effort, pain, proprioception, and balance.

    “While the cardiac, respiratory and gastric tests described above are the most commonly used measures used to explicitly assess interoceptive ability, as a wide variety of signals are considered to be interoceptive in nature, we would suggest that a range of existing perceptual sensitivity measures are in fact also measures of interoceptive ability.”

    From Atypical interoception as a common risk factor for psychopathology: A review (2021) · cites this paper as Harshaw, 2008

    The opening section identifies hunger, thirst and satiety as forms of interoception, and “The Development of Hunger, Thirst and Satiety in Humans” links sensitivity to internal states with interoceptive awareness. The paper does not establish that existing sensitivity tests across the full listed range—including oral temperature, muscular effort, proprioception and balance—measure interoceptive ability. Page numbers were not available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.85)

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Authors
HARSHAW, C.
Affiliations
Florida International University (US)
Corresponding author
HARSHAW, C
ORCID
HARSHAW, C
Venue
Developmental Review
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2008-12
Volume
28
Issue
4
Pages
541-569
ISSN
0273-2297 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.dr.2008.08.001
PMC
PMC2654322
OpenAlex
W1990457679
Cited by
80
References
264
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 5
FWCI
0.89
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Developmental Review (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD048423)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Regulation of Appetite and Obesity
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Eating Disorders and Behaviors
Keywords
hunger, thirst, satiety, ontogeny, dietary intake, fluid intake, emotional development, epigenetics, comparative psychology, dietary habits

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