Sensory Systems: Interoception and Exteroception

Sensory Systems: Interoception and Exteroception brings together leaders across neuroscience, physiology, and systems biology to explore how organisms sense, integrate, and respond to both the external world and internal bodily states. From exteroceptive senses such as touch, taste, olfaction, vision, and hearing to rapidly advancing insights into interoception, this meeting highlights how sensory systems shape perception, behavior, homeostasis, and disease. The program features an emphasis on interoception – how signals from organs such as the gut, heart, and lungs are detected, encoded, and interpreted by the nervous system – revealing new frameworks for understanding behavioral and physiological responses. Sessions also explore somatosensation, chemosensation, mechanosensation, and multisensory integration, linking foundational mechanisms to organism-level outcomes. This meeting will be held jointly with Neurobiology of Appetite Control.

Topics: Neurobiology, Neuroscience, Sensory Systems, Molecular Biology, Emerging Technologies,