It is becoming clearer how neurobiological mechanisms generate 'liking'and
'wanting'components of food reward. Mesocorticolimbic mechanisms that enhance …

An ascending sensory pathway that underlies feelings from the body, such as cooling or
toothache, terminates in the posterior insula. Considerable evidence suggests that this …

The science of emotion has been using folk psychology categories derived from philosophy
to search for the brain basis of emotion. The last two decades of neuroscience research …

It has been convincingly established, over the past decade, that the human insular cortices
are involved in processing both body feelings (such as pain) and feelings of emotion …

A network of cortical brain regions, including the insula and anterior cingulate cortex (ACC),
has been proposed as the critical and sole substrate for interoceptive awareness …

Hedonic hotspots are brain sites where particular neurochemical stimulations causally
amplify the hedonic impact of sensory rewards, such as “liking” for sweetness. Here, we …

Social animals actively engage in contact with conspecifics and experience stress upon
isolation. However, the neural mechanisms coordinating the sensing and seeking of social …

Introduction: Memory is defined as the ability to store, maintain and retrieve information.
Learning is the acquisition of information that changes behavior and memory. Stress …

It has been proposed that self-awareness (SA), a multifaceted phenomenon central to
human consciousness, depends critically on specific brain regions, namely the insular …

Converging evidence points to a role for the hippocampus in statistical learning, but open
questions about its necessity remain. Evidence for necessity comes from Schapiro and …