Overlapping activity in anterior insula during interoception and emotional experience.

ABSTRACT: Classic theories of emotion posit that awareness of one's internal bodily states (interoception) is a key component of emotional experience. This view has been indirectly supported by data demonstrating similar patterns of brain activity - most importantly, in the anterior insula - during both interoception and emotion elicitation. However, no study has directly compared these two phenomena within participants, leaving it unclear whether interoception and emotional experience truly share the same functional neural architecture. The current study addressed this gap in knowledge by examining the neural convergence of these two phenomena within the same population. In one task, participants monitored their own heartbeat; in another task they watched emotional video clips and rated their own e

SUBMITTER: Zaki J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6558972 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature