Once you feel it, you see it: Insula and sensory-motor contribution to visual awareness for fearful bodies in parietal neglect

Cortex

Volumn 62, Issue , 2015, Pages 56-72

  Tamietto, Marco ^a,b   Cauda, Franco ^a,c   Celeghin, Alessia ^a,b,c   Diano, Matteo ^a,c   Costa, Tommaso ^a,c   Cossa, Federico M ^d   Sacco, Katiuscia ^a   Duca, Sergio ^c   Geminiani, Giuliano C ^a,c   de Gelder, Beatrice ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Koelliker Hospital   (Italy)

^d IRCCS   (Italy)

^e MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotion perception; Interoception; Visual awareness; Visual extinction

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANGULAR GYRUS; ANTERIOR INSULA; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; AWARENESS; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; FEAR; FEARFUL BODILY EXPRESSION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; INSULA; LEFT VISUAL FIELD; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MYDRIASIS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUTRAL BODILY EXPRESSION; PARIETAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PUPILLOMETRY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; RIGHT VISUAL FIELD; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL GYRUS; VISION; VISUAL AWARENESS; VISUAL EXTINCTION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; BRAIN CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; INJURIES; MOTOR CORTEX; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

AGED; AMYGDALA; AWARENESS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EMOTIONS; FEAR; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84919935814     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.10.009     Document Type: Article

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