The basal ganglia (BG) and the cerebellum historically have been relegated to a functional
role in producing or modulating motor output. Recent research, however, has emphasized …

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 …

Mindfulness is often used as an umbrella term to characterize a large number of practices,
processes, and characteristics. Critics argue that this broad definition has led to …

Although recent studies on self-consciousness emphasized the importance of bodily
processing and multisensory integration, such research has focused solely on bodily signals …

The current view of brain organization supports the notion that there is a considerable
degree of functional specialization and that many regions can be conceptualized as …

Despite much research on the function of the insular cortex, few studies have investigated
functional subdivisions of the insula in humans. The present study used resting-state …

Functional imaging studies of emotional processing typically contain neutral control
conditions that serve to remove simple effects of visual perception, thus revealing the …

What is the basic structure of emotional experience and how is it represented in the human
brain? One highly influential theory, discrete basic emotions, proposes a limited set of basic …

This article addresses the neuroanatomical evidence for a progression of integrative
representations of affective feelings from the body that lead to an ultimate representation of …

In the blink of an eye, people can easily see emotion in another person's face. This fact
leads many to assume that emotion perception is given and proceeds independently of …