Afferentation Situational

Situational afferentation is a term proposed by Russian physiologist P.K. Anokhin, which denotes a component of afferent synthesis - a process that occurs in the nervous system and allows the body to adapt to changing environmental conditions.

Situational afferentation represents the impact on the body of all external factors that make up a specific environment. This could be temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, the presence or absence of sounds, smells, colors, etc. All these factors affect the body and can be both positive and negative.

In the process of environmental afferentation, the organism analyzes all these factors and determines how well they correspond to its needs and capabilities. If the environment is favorable for the organism, then it can continue its life activities in this environment. If the environment is unfavorable, the organism may change its behavior or even leave this environment.

It is important to note that environmental afferentation is one of the key components of the body’s adaptation to a changing environment. It allows the body to quickly respond to changes and adapt to new conditions.

Situational afferentation is a mechanism for forming an image of the environment that occurs under the specific influence of its various factors (mechanical, electrical, chemical, optical, temperature, etc.) on the human sense organs responsible for the perception of specific environmental stimuli. Situational afferentation, as it exists in perception research, is usually understood as the emergence of sensations and perceptions in response to a situation or space. As a process of formation of all sensory modules and processes in the context of a specific environment, the environment can play an important role in the perception and processing of all sensory information by humans and other animals. It is environmental stimuli that can completely switch consciousness from one sensory system to another. The perception and processing of afferent signals of various modalities is considered by psychologists as the basis for searching for information about the sensory world, which stimulates a behavioral response. In the general scheme of cognition, information is transmitted from the senses to the central nervous system, and then at the neural level is transmitted along neurons to centers that can then transform this information to adapt it to cognition, memory, planning and decision-making and behavior. This implies that information can be received through many different messages, data and sensors by different types of stimulation, all of which are processed depending on the context in which they occur. Typically, each event has its own "