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Abstract
A recent article reports that human perception of heartbeat timing is mediated by right (non-dominant) anterior insular cortex, and that the activity and the size of this region is directly correlated with individuals' subjective awareness of inner body feelings and emotionality. These results support the somatic-marker hypothesis of consciousness (a modern successor to the James-Lange theory of emotion) and the neuroanatomical concept that human awareness is based on a phylogenetically distinct interoceptive pathway.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 15165543 DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2004.04.004
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Cogn Sci ISSN: 1364-6613 Impact factor: 20.229