Adrian P. Crawley

TL;DR: A distributed, multimodal network for involuntary attention to events in the sensory environment is revealed that contains areas thought to underlie the P300 event-related potential and closely corresponds to the set of cortical regions damaged in patients with hemineglect syndromes.

TL;DR: FMRI was used to identify brain regions sensitive to the novelty of visual, auditory, and tactile stimuli during passive observation and found a frontal-parietal-cingulate network may serve to identify and evaluate salient sensory stimuli in general.

TL;DR: Functional magnetic resonance imaging is used to locate discrete regions of the thalamus, insula, and second somatosensory cortex modulated during innocuous and noxious thermal stimulation and provides support for a role of the anterior insula and S2 in the perception of pain; whereas the posterior insula appears to be involved in tactile and innocuous temperature perception.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided for a region in the posterior part of the ACC that is involved in pain and a more anterior region involved in other attention-demanding cognitive tasks, which shed light on pain- and attention-related cognitive processes.

TL;DR: The data suggest that the ventral striatum, a crucial element of the brain "reward" system, is directly activated in anticipation of aversive stimuli.