How do you feel — now? The anterior insula and human awareness
Craig, A. D. (2009). How do you feel — now? The anterior insula and human awareness. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 10: 59-70.
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.
Source: Nature Reviews Neuroscience
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