{"id":4098,"date":"2022-04-28T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/?p=4098"},"modified":"2022-04-12T08:11:37","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T08:11:37","slug":"monkeys-can-sense-their-own-heartbeats-an-ability-tied-to-mental-health-consciousness-and-memory-in-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/monkeys-can-sense-their-own-heartbeats-an-ability-tied-to-mental-health-consciousness-and-memory-in-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"Monkeys can sense their own heartbeats, an ability tied to mental health, consciousness and memory in humans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n New research indicates that rhesus monkeys show interoception \u2013 the ability to sense physiological processes like their own heartbeats.\n Matthew Verdolivo\/UC Davis IET Academic Technology Services<\/span>, CC BY-ND<\/a><\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n\nJoey Charbonneau<\/a>, University of California, Davis<\/a><\/em> and Eliza Bliss-Moreau<\/a>, University of California, Davis<\/a><\/em><\/span>\n\n

The Research Brief<\/a> is a short take about interesting academic work.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

The big idea<\/h2>\n\n

Rhesus monkeys have a sense of when their own hearts are beating<\/a>, according to new research we conducted.<\/p>\n\n

Sensing one\u2019s own physiological states \u2013 like your heartbeat, breathing or blushing cheeks \u2013 is called interoception<\/a>. Some previous research has shown that animals can be trained to do tasks that demonstrate this ability<\/a>. Decades ago, a team of scientists showed rhesus monkeys could be trained to increase and decrease their heart rates<\/a>. But an open question has been whether monkeys have an unlearned ability to sense their bodily signals rather than being taught to do so.<\/p>\n\n

Both human babies and monkeys look at things that are unexpected or novel for longer amounts of time than they look at things that they expect or are used to seeing. We used a task that relies on this behavior \u2013 originally developed to test whether human infants can sense their own heartbeats<\/a> \u2013 to learn whether monkeys also have this ability.<\/p>\n\n

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