The origin of pleasant sensations: Insight from direct electrical brain stimulation.

By Cécile Villard, Zoé Dary, J. Léonard, S. M. Villalon, R. Carron, J. Makhalova, S. Lagarde, Christophe Lopez, F. Bartolomei. 2023

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience

Citations in the corpus

• Multi-task Intracranial EEG recordings reveal a Comprehensive Role of the Human Dorsal Anterior Insula in High-Level Cognition (2025, unknown): “Furthermore, we provide a pos-466 sible explanation for the intriguing finding that electrical stimulations delivered to this region can occasionally generate a sense of bliss ( Villard et al., 2023 ).”
• Anatomo-functional basis of emotional and motor resonance elicited by facial expressions (2024, unknown): “66 Taken together, these data make the ACC and the AI the ideal neural substrate for an ‘emotional resonance’ system, that is, a sys-tem projecting the visual representation of other’s emotional displays into the corresponding emotional motor pathway, potentially facilitating facial mimicry and…”