the interoceptive processing system.

History and etymology

Early to mid-1900s

The concept of interoception was introduced in 1906 by the Nobel Laureate Sir Charles S. Sherrington. He did not use the noun interoception, but did describe as interoceptive those receptors that are within the viscera--what are today called "visceroceptive"--and thus excluded all other receptors and information from the body, which he grouped as either exteroceptive or proprioceptive.

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