Emotional functions of the insula

Brain and Nerve

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1103-1112

  Suzuki, Atsunobu ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Disgust; Emotional experience; Insula; Social learning; Somatic marker

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; EMOTION; INSULA; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; REVIEW; TASTE;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; LEARNING; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SENSATION;

EID: 84868542228     PISSN: 18816096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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