Anterior insular cortex and emotional awareness

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 521, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 3371-3388

  Gu, Xiaosi ^a,b   Hof, Patrick R ^c   Friston, Karl J ^a   Fan, Jin ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b VIRGINIA TECH CARILION SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior insular cortex; Bottom up; Emotional awareness; Empathy; FMRI; Meta analysis; Predictive coding; Top down

Indexed keywords

ALEXITHYMIA; ANTERIOR INSULA; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DEMENTIA; EGO DEVELOPMENT; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; EMPATHY; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE; HUMAN; INTEROCEPTION; LIMBIC CORTEX; MENTAL HEALTH; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL STATUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ANTERIOR INSULAR CORTEX; BOTTOM-UP; EMOTIONAL AWARENESS; EMPATHY; FMRI; META-ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE CODING; TOP-DOWN;

AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; ANIMALS; AWARENESS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONSCIOUSNESS; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; HUMANS;

EID: 84882966792     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.23368     Document Type: Article

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