what controls temperature in the body
A team of researchers led by Associate Professor Maria Kozhevnikov from the Department of Psychology at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences showed, for the first time, that it is possible for core body temperature to be controlled by the brain.
Confidence votes 11.3K. Receptors on the skin and the hypothalmus region of the brain are responsible for monitoring our body temperature. If it falls too low, vasoconstriction takes place to reduce the amount of blood that reaches the surface of our skin, hence less heat is lost by radiation. This is why you turn pale in cold weather.