%0 Journal Article %J Nat Rev Neurosci %D 2009 %T How do you feel--now? The anterior insula and human awareness. %A Craig, A D Bud %K Acoustic Stimulation %K Awareness %K Cerebral Cortex %K Cognition %K Decision making %K Emotions %K Humans %K Neurons %K Perception %K Photic Stimulation %X

The anterior insular cortex (AIC) is implicated in a wide range of conditions and behaviours, from bowel distension and orgasm, to cigarette craving and maternal love, to decision making and sudden insight. Its function in the re-representation of interoception offers one possible basis for its involvement in all subjective feelings. New findings suggest a fundamental role for the AIC (and the von Economo neurons it contains) in awareness, and thus it needs to be considered as a potential neural correlate of consciousness.

%B Nat Rev Neurosci %V 10 %P 59-70 %8 2009 Jan %G eng %N 1 %1

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19096369?dopt=Abstract

%R 10.1038/nrn2555