Correlations between social-emotional feelings and anterior insula activity are independent from visceral states but influenced by culture

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-15

  Immordino Yang, Mary Helen ^a   Yang, Xiao Fei ^a   Damasio, Hanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arousal; Cultural neuroscience; East West differences; Interoception; Subjective affect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMERICAN; ANTERIOR INSULA; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEART CONTRACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR INSULA; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL EMOTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84933673857     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00728     Document Type: Article

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