The interoceptors provide information about the internal organs, and the " proprioceptors " provide information about movement derived from muscular, tendon, and articular sources.
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Denton distinguishes between primordial emotions, " imperious states of arousal and compelling intentions to act " ( p . 7 ) driven by activation of interoceptors and involving ancient, lower brain regions such as the medulla, midbrain and hypothalamus, and " classic " emotions, such as anger, fear and love, driven by distance receptors ( vision, hearing, olfaction ) and mediated by higher, more recently evolved brain regions.
परिभाषा
any receptor that responds to stimuli inside the body पर्याय: enteroceptor,