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Physiological Feelings.

Author: Pace-Schott EF¹, Amole MC², Aue T³, Balconi M⁴, Bylsma LM², Critchley H⁵, Demaree HA⁶, Friedman BH⁷, Gooding AEK⁶, Gosseries O⁸, Jovanovic T⁹, Kirby LAJ¹⁰, Kozlowska K¹¹, Laureys S⁸, Lowe L¹², Magee K⁶, Marin MF¹³, Merner A⁶, Robinson JL¹⁴, Smith RC¹⁵, Spangler DP⁷, Van Overveld M¹⁶, VanElzakker MB¹⁷
Affiliation:
¹Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: epace-schott@mgh.harvard.edu.
²University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
³University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
⁴Catholic University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
⁵University of Sussex, Sussex, UK.
⁶Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH USA.
⁷Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA.
⁸University of Liege, Liege, Belgium.
⁹Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
¹⁰University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX, USA.
¹¹University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
¹²Neuroqualia (NGO), Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada.
¹³Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Canada.
¹⁴Auburn University, Auburn, AL USA.
¹⁵Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI USA.
¹⁶Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
¹⁷Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Conference/Journal: Neurosci Biobehav Rev.
Date published: 2019 May 21
Other: Pages: S0149-7634(18)30867-4 , Special Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.05.002. [Epub ahead of print] , Word Count: 196

The role of peripheral physiology in the experience of emotion has been debated since the 19th century following the seminal proposal by William James that somatic responses to stimuli determine subjective emotion. Subsequent views have integrated forebrain's ability to initiate, represent and simulate such physiological events. Modern affective neuroscience envisions an interacting network of "bottom-up" and "top-down" signaling in which the peripheral (PNS) and central nervous systems both receive and generate the experience of emotion. "Feelings" serves as a term for the perception of these physical changes whether emanating from actual somatic events or from the brain's representation of such. 'Interoception' has come to represent the brain's receipt and representation of these actual and "virtual" somatic changes that may or may not enter conscious awareness but, nonetheless, influence feelings. Such information can originate from diverse sources including endocrine, immune and gastrointestinal systems as well as the PNS. We here examine physiological feelings from diverse perspectives including current and historical theories, evolution, neuroanatomy and physiology, development, regulatory processes, pathology and linguistics.

Copyright © 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.

KEYWORDS: Autonomic Nervous System; Emotion; Emotion Regulation; Feelings; Insula; Interoception; Somatic Markers

PMID: 31125635 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.05.002

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Physiological Feelings.