How do you feel — now? The anterior insula and human awareness
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- 1 January 2009
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature Reviews Neuroscience
- Vol. 10 (1) , 59-70
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn2555
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.Keywords
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