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Alessandro Monti

Research Fellow, Social and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Rome

Alessandro Monti is a research fellow at the Social and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Rome. His work focuses on the role of visceral physiological signals in bodily self-consciousness. He lives in Rome.

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Written by Alessandro Monti

Photo of a crowd at night, a woman in the front smiles with her hand on her chest, others hold lights in the background.

The self

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A stable sense of self is rooted in the lungs, heart and gut

Exciting new research findings are validating ancient folk beliefs that root the sense of self deep in the body’s organs

by Alessandro Monti