Topic: Heart rate modulation

Interoception it has a large influence on how animals make decisions and is necessary to adjust internal body function to the organism’s needs, such as during rest or hunting. The heart is essential in the process to adapt the animal to changing circumstances by increasing or decreasing its rate. Heart rate modulation occurs through the communication between sensory and motor ganglia of the autonomic nervous system. The vagal neurons transmit information to the heart and send information via the autonomic nervous system to the central nervous system. How they interact to change heart activity,