During gambling, people tend to believe that past events affect the probability of future events. This is known as the gambler's fallacy. British scientists recruited 31 patients with insula injury and asked them to play a coin-operated machine. Other brain regions also recruited 13 patients with injury and 16 healthy comparison research, the study found that in addition to the insula injured subjects, others to be the result of almost won, the desire to continue to participate in the game are strengthened, who demonstrated the gambler's fallacy, scientists believe that the gambler insula area may be hyperactive, makes it easy to do Beyond logical reasoning, future treatments for gambling addiction might be targeted at the insula, with drugs or psychotherapy to reduce insula activity.
The statement "Individuals with insula injury have difficulty estimating the probability of future events" is consistent with the question.