A common role of insula in feelings, empathy and uncertainty.

By Tania Singer, Hugo D. Critchley, Kerstin Preuschoff. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2009

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Naturalizing aesthetics: Brain areas for aesthetic appraisal across sensory modalities (2011, positive): “, 2000), and the capacity to predictively anticipate the impact of emotional events on the body's responses (Bechara and Damasio, 2005; Singer et al., 2009).”
Meta-analytic evidence for common and distinct neural networks associated with directly experienced pain and empathy for pain (2011, positive): “…framework suggesting thatAImightbe employed for current and prospective representations of both self- and other-related affective states, and that these representations play an important role in adaptive behavior, guiding decision making and homeostatic regulation (Singer et al., 2009, for review).”
Whatever next? Predictive brains, situated agents, and the future of cognitive science. (2013, background): “2004) and by the expression within AIC of prediction error signals across a variety of affectladen contexts (Paulus & Stein 2006; Singer et al. 2009; Palaniyappan & Liddle 2011).”
Anterior Insular Cortex and Emotional Awareness (2013, positive): “In rats, the insular cortex is interconnected with the autonomic system as well as limbic and frontal regions (Saper and Loewy, 1980; Saper, 1982; Allen et al., 1991) and has been shown to contain a viscerotopic map (Cechetto and Saper, 1987).”
Overlapping activity in anterior insula during interoception and emotional experience (2012, positive): “The apparent convergence of interoceptive and emotional processes in the AI has motivated neuroscientists to argue that perceptions of internal bodily states – as supported by this region – are central to emotional experience (Craig, 2002, 2009; Lamm and Singer, 2010; Singer et al., 2009).”
A Convergent Functional Architecture of the Insula Emerges Across Imaging Modalities (2012, positive): “, 2003), emotion (particularly empathy and disgust; e.g., Adolphs et al., 2003; Jabbi et al., 2007; Singer et al., 2009; Wicker et al., 2003), and cognition (including attention and language processing; e.”
Gut feelings: the emerging biology of gut–brain communication (2011, background): “Intuitive decision making can be defined as the rapid assessment of the probability of a favourable or unfavourable outcome of a planned behaviour in a situation of uncertain outcomes, which is dependent on previous experiences rather than on serial processes of inductive and or deductive reasonin”
Mind wandering and attention during focused meditation: A fine-grained temporal analysis of fluctuating cognitive states (2012, positive): “Anterior insula and dorsal ACC show highly correlated activity during resting states and have been implicated in a diverse range of cognitive processes, including conflict monitoring and error detection, interoceptive-autonomic arousal, the moment of perceptual recognition, self-regulation, emotiona”
Empathic brain responses in insula are modulated by levels of alexithymia but not autism (2010, background): “More generally, insular cortex, also called ‘interoceptive cortex’, has been shown to be involved in mapping internal bodily and subjective feeling states (Damasio, 1994; Craig, 2002, 2003, 2009; Critchley et al., 2004, 2005; Singer et al., 2009).”
The wandering brain: Meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies of mind-wandering and related spontaneous thought processes (2015, neutral): “…secondary tal control network masks based on aggregate data from 1000 subjects as reported by Yeo be more complex due to its involvement in such a wide variety of processes (Singer et al., 2009), a role for these regions in the ‘somatic’ experiences of spontaneous thought is one possibility.”
Visceral influences on brain and behavior. (2013, positive): “Simulation (mirroring) of emotional state through physiological embodiment of the corresponding bodily responses is linked to empathy (Harrison et al., 2010; Singer et al., 2009).”
Neuronal correlates of altered empathy and social cognition in borderline personality disorder (2011, positive): “More specifically, we expected reduced functioning of the anterior insular cortex, which has been proven a key mediator of the otheroriented sharing of the emotions (Fan et al., 2011; Lamm et al., 2011; Singer et al., 2009).”