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October 18, 2026
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The perceptual, cognitive, emotional and social meanings through which a person experiences their own body
Research-led explanations of human capacity, learning and technological change. Start with the foundations, then follow the evidence and related ideas as the Library grows.
The perceptual, cognitive, emotional and social meanings through which a person experiences their own body
The action-oriented representation that helps the nervous system know the body’s configuration, scale and possibilities for movement
How the inner ear contributes to balance, head motion, orientation and self-motion, and why “balance” is always a multisensory achievement
The neural encoding of noxious stimuli, why nociception is not the same as pain, and how that distinction changes clinical and everyday reasoning
How the nervous system samples the world outside the body, and why the boundary between external and internal sensing is more computationally complex than it first appears
The sensory system that helps the nervous system know where the body is and how it is moving without needing to look
How the brain may compare expected and incoming bodily states, why mismatch matters, and where predictive-processing language outruns the evidence
What it means to know how well you are reading your own body, and why the term has become one of the most confusing in interoception research
What people believe and report about their relationship with internal bodily signals, and why self-report is not a proxy for accuracy
What researchers mean by objectively measured internal-signal detection, and why the score depends on the task