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How do you feel? Interoception: the sense of the physiological condition of the body.
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Functional anatomical work has detailed an afferent neural system in primates and in humans that represents all aspects of the physiological condition of the physical body that might provide a foundation for subjective feelings, emotion and self-awareness.Abstract:
As humans, we perceive feelings from our bodies that relate our state of well-being, our energy and stress levels, our mood and disposition. How do we have these feelings? What neural processes do they represent? Recent functional anatomical work has detailed an afferent neural system in primates and in humans that represents all aspects of the physiological condition of the physical body. This system constitutes a representation of 'the material me', and might provide a foundation for subjective feelings, emotion and self-awareness.read more
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Inferring another's expectation from action: the role of peripheral sensation.
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Human brain activation during sexual stimulation of the penis.
TL;DR: The concept that during sexual performance the salience of the stimulus, represented by activation of the insula and SII, is of greater significance than the exact location of the stimuli, encoded in SI, is put forward.
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Methodological and Dispositional Predictors of Congruence Between Implicit and Explicit Need for Achievement
TL;DR: It is found that implicit and explicit need for achievement (nAch) are significantly correlated, but only if the explicit and explicit measures are matched in content.
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The neurocircuitry of obsessive-compulsive disorder and disgust.
TL;DR: The neurocircuits involved in disgust processing may be relevant to OCD and, in particular, the contamination subtype as discussed by the authors, where disgust is a basic emotion that has been hypothesized to constitute an evolutionary function of contamination and disease avoidance.
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The neural mechanisms of affect infusion in social economic decision-making: A mediating role of the anterior insula
TL;DR: This study is the first to reveal how subtle mood states can be integrated at the neural level to influence decision-making, and uniquely mediated the relationship between sadness and decision bias.
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TL;DR: For instance, the authors discusses the multiplicity of the consciousness of self in the form of the stream of thought and the perception of space in the human brain, which is the basis for our work.
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Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
TL;DR: The authors argued that rational decisions are not the product of logic alone - they require the support of emotion and feeling, drawing on his experience with neurological patients affected with brain damage, Dr Damasio showed how absence of emotions and feelings can break down rationality.
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TL;DR: In this article, the Integrative Action of the Nervous System [1906] Charles S. Sherrington, W.B. Hadden, and W.A. Baly have been discussed.