How do you feel--now? The anterior insula and human awareness.

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MOCA Reference, APE

Publication Type: Journal Article

Authors: Craig, A D Bud

Year of Publication: 2009

Journal: Nat Rev Neurosci

Volume: 10

Issue: 1

Pagination: 59-70

Date Published: 2009 Jan

Publication Language: eng

ISSN: 1471-0048

Keywords: Acoustic Stimulation, Awareness, Cerebral Cortex, Cognition, Decision making, Emotions, Humans, Neurons, Perception, Photic Stimulation

Abstract:

The anterior insular cortex (AIC) is implicated in a wide range of conditions and behaviours, from bowel distension and orgasm, to cigarette craving and maternal love, to decision making and sudden insight. Its function in the re-representation of interoception offers one possible basis for its involvement in all subjective feelings. New findings suggest a fundamental role for the AIC (and the von Economo neurons it contains) in awareness, and thus it needs to be considered as a potential neural correlate of consciousness.

DOI: 10.1038/nrn2555

Custom 1:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19096369?dopt=Abstract

Alternate Journal: Nat. Rev. Neurosci.

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