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Interoceptive Stimulus Control of Behavior

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Stimulus Properties of Drugs

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That behavior occurs differentially with respect to events occurring in the internal environment of organisms is well known. Investigations by neurophysiologists in the early 1800s left no doubt that afferent nerve fibers originating in blood vessels, the gastrointestinal tract, and the mesentery and urogenital systems carry sensory information to the brain. The receptors excited by stimuli arising within the organism were called interoceptors. By the middle of that century, pulmonary interoceptors controlling breathing, aortal receptors regulating cardiovascular responses, and deep muscle receptors concerned with coordinating reflex muscle activity were isolated and their functions studied. In 1880 Pavlov concluded that all internal tissues contained interoceptors capable of controlling unconditioned (reflex) responses (Bykov, 1957). It was not until almost 50 years later that interoceptors were found to be capable of controlling conditioned (learned) behavior as well.

The preparation of this chapter was supported in part by USPHS Research Grants MH-15349 and MH-14112 to the University of Minnesota.

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Thompson, T., Pickens, R. (1971). Interoceptive Stimulus Control of Behavior. In: Thompson, T., Pickens, R. (eds) Stimulus Properties of Drugs. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0788-5_1

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