Visceral influences on brain and behavior.

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Interoception and emotion. (2017, background): “Signals from the stomach convey emotional impact beyond motivational signals of hunger and fullness, to support other affective states (notably disgust [4]).”
Active interoceptive inference and the emotional brain (2016, background): “These VMAs are known to receive ascending projections from viscerosensory areas (e.g. posterior and mid-insula) and their descending connections engage a range of subcortical, brainstem and spinal cord targets involved in visceromotor control, such as the periaqueductal grey (PAG) and the parabrachi”
The cingulate cortex and limbic systems for emotion, action, and memory (2019, background): “The dorsal anterior and midcingulate cortical areas may be especially related to blood pressure, pupil size, heart rate, and electrodermal activity, whereas the subgenual cingulate cortex, with ventromedial prefrontal cortex, appears antisympathetic (and parasympathetic) (Critchley and Harrison 2013”
An Appraisal-Driven Componential Approach to the Emotional Brain (2018, positive): “…well elucidated, and subcortical as well as cortical (e.g., primary somatosensory cortex [SI], secondary somatosensory cortex [SII], and the insular cortex) somatosensory maps have been attributed the critical role of representing the bodily response (see Critchley & Harrison, 2013; Damasio, 1998).”