How do you feel — now? The anterior insula and human awareness

By Craig Atkinson. 2009

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health, Social Psychology

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Body Awareness: Construct and Self-Report Measures (2009, background): “Awareness of internal physical sensations has been linked with activations in specific brain areas including the right anterior insula and cingulate cortices [36] and the pathways for a multi-level integrated representation of innerbody experience have been clarified [29,37].”
Naturalizing aesthetics: Brain areas for aesthetic appraisal across sensory modalities (2011, positive): “…a paralimbic region associated with interoceptive awareness/insight (Critchley, 2005; Critchley et al., 2004), a sense of the " feeling self " (Craig, 2009), core affect (Barrett et al., 2007), the subjective experience of emotions such as pain, sadness, anxiety and disgust (Liotti et al.,…”
Interoception in anxiety and depression (2010, background): “2004) of oneself, others, and the environment (Craig 2009).”
Error-related anterior cingulate cortex activity and the prediction of conscious error awareness (2012, background): “Craig (2009) described this relationship as the ACC signal providing a measure of the motivational significance of an event, which is interpreted in the insula in the context of information about social and cognitive conditions to produce awareness of an event and the actor’s subjective experience…”
The Autonomic Nervous System and Emotion (2014, methodology): “Most recently, the important role that visceral information plays in emotion and the ways this information is organized in the brain have become active areas of inquiry in neuroscience research using both patient and activation models (e.g., Craig, 2009; Critchley, 2005).”
A Meta-analysis of Functional Neuroimaging Studies of Self- and Other Judgments Reveals a Spatial Gradient for Mentalizing in Medial Prefrontal Cortex (2012, result): “…are consistent with the results of another recent self–other meta-analysis (Qin et al., 2012; Qin & Northoff, 2011) and with a role for interoception in self-related awareness that involves the anterior insula (Denny, Ochsner, Weber, & Wager, in preparation; Craig, 2009; Wager & Barrett, 2004).”
Gut feelings: the emerging biology of gut–brain communication (2011, background): “Based on electrophysiological and neuroanatomical data obtained in animals, Craig proposed the concept of a lamina I spino–thalamo–cortical pathway, visible in primates and well-developed only in humans, that provides a direct cortical image of the homeostatic state of the body (in the posterior and”
Annual Research Review: Enduring neurobiological effects of childhood abuse and neglect (2016, neutral): “Craig (2009) has hypothesized that the anterior insula plays a critical role in self-awareness.”
Development of Large-Scale Functional Brain Networks in Children (2009, background): “Converging evidence from a number of brain imaging studies across several task domains suggests that the insula and the anterior cingulate cortex respond to the degree of subjective salience, whether cognitive, homeostatic, or emotional [75,76].”
The Representation of Information About Taste and Odor in the Orbitofrontal Cortex (2010, background): “We note that other parts of the insula may map visceral/interoceptive activity ( Craig 2002, 2009 ) and play a role in autonomic activity (Critchley 2005), which may be related to state-dependent effects of for example satiety (Gautier et al. 2001).”
Saliency, switching, attention and control: a network model of insula function (2010, positive): “Descending pathways from the dorsal posterior insula have been described which terminate in the brainstem parabrachial nuclei, constituting a mechanism for cortical control of brainstem homeostatic systems (Craig 2002).”
Neural bases of the non-conscious perception of emotional signals (2010, background): “Do observers who show non-conscious perception of emotional signals actually experience their own emotional changes consciously? Studies into neurophysiological and bodily changes associated with emotions are classical sources of evidence for understanding the relationship between an emotional state”