Visceroception

As Viszerozeption (from Latin viscera "guts" and recipere "Record") or Enterozeption those components are the perception of beings called the information on organ activities provide. They are perceived as hunger , thirst , intestinal pain or the urge to urinate , among other things .

Definition of terms

Those components of the perception of living beings that provide information not about the outside world but from their own body sections and about their own body sections are summarized under the generic term interoception . A distinction is made between proprioception (perception of body position and movement in space) and visceroception (perception of organ activities). The perception of the outside world is called exteroception .

In other specialist literature, however, a different definition of terms is occasionally made. Thus interoception not as a generic term, but as a synonym for Enterozeption (thus and Viszerozeption related).

See also

• Deep sensitivity
• Sense of touch (tactile perception)

Web links

Wikibooks: Elementary knowledge of medical psychology and medical sociology  - learning and teaching materials

Individual evidence

1. ↑ K. Buser and others: Short textbook medical psychology-medical sociology. Urban & FischerVerlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-437-43211-8 , p. 93, (online)
2. ↑ C. Kirschbaum: Biopsychology from A to Z. 1st edition. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-39603-1 .