Yuri Terasawa

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the common and distinct features of the neural activity underlying evaluation of emotional and bodily state using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and found that the right anterior insular cortex and ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC) are commonly activated areas.

TL;DR: The results of this study suggest that continuous and accumulating sleep debt that can be experienced in everyday life can downregulate the functional suppression of the amygdala by the vACC and consequently enhance the response of thegdala to negative emotional stimuli.

TL;DR: The results suggest that afferent feedback from visceral activity may contribute to inferences about the affective state of others.

TL;DR: The results indicated that right anterior insular activation was positively correlated with individual levels of social anxiety and neuroticism and negatively correlated with agreeableness and extraversion, and suggest that attention to interoceptive sensation affects personality traits through how the authors feel emotion subjectively in various situations.

TL;DR: This study used facial expressions to examine whether interoceptive sensibility modulated emotional experience in a social context and found that false responses to sad faces were closely related with an individual's degree of social anxiety.