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What is interoception?

The ability to perceive other people's emotion
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The brain's continuous monitoring of the body's internal state (heart rate, blood pressure, glucose, temperature)
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A type of meditation practice
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The five senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell)
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What is affective realism?

Your emotions being accurate reflections of reality.
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Your feelings altering what you see, hear and perceive.
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Reality being the cause of your emotions.
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Controlling your emotions through willpower.
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What is the body budget? (allostasis)

A financial metaphor with biological basis.
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The brain's continuous predictions to keep the body alive.
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The immune system's response to infection.
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A technique for managing stress.
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Why are the body-budgeting regions in your body “mostly deaf”?

They can't process sound.
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They don't update quickly in response to corrective signals from the body.
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They only process interoceptive information.
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They are located far from the auditory cortex.
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Why are the body-budgeting regions “loudmouthed”?

Because they directly control the motor speech centers of the brain.
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Because they send constant predictions to sensory regions, powerfully shaping what we see, hear and feel.
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Because they consume significantly more metabolic energy (glucose and oxygen) than other brain regions.
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Because they release volumes of neurotransmitters directly into the bloodstream, essentially "shouting over" the localized, quieter chemical signaling of the brain's centers.
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