Evidence is provided for a new conceptualization of the connectivity and functions of the
cingulate cortex in emotion, action, and memory. The anterior cingulate cortex receives …

Intuition suggests that perception follows sensation and therefore bodily feelings originate in
the body. However, recent evidence goes against this logic: interoceptive experience may …

Abstract Information processing in the cerebral cortex involves interactions among
distributed areas. Anatomical connectivity suggests that certain areas form local hierarchical …

A baseline or control state is fundamental to the understanding of most complex systems.
Defining a baseline state in the human brain, arguably our most complex system, poses a …

Thirty years of brain imaging research has converged to define the brain's default network—
a novel and only recently appreciated brain system that participates in internal modes of …

A neuroimaging study examined the neural correlates of social exclusion and tested the
hypothesis that the brain bases of social pain are similar to those of physical pain …

Researchers have wondered how the brain creates emotions since the early days of
psychological science. With a surge of studies in affective neuroscience in recent decades …

Historically, the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine (LC-NE) system has been implicated in
arousal, but recent findings suggest that this system plays a more complex and specific role …

Functional brain imaging in humans has revealed task-specific increases in brain activity
that are associated with various mental activities. In the same studies, mysterious, task …

Medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) is among those brain regions having the highest baseline
metabolic activity at rest and one that exhibits decreases from this baseline across a wide …