If the anterior insula was more active, the subjects had "a higher fidelity when it comes to making economic decisions," said Samanez-Larkin. "They were better at predicting what might happen." ...

More information: F. Bartolomei et al, The role of the dorsal anterior insula in ecstatic sensation revealed by direct electrical brain stimulation, Brain Stimulation (2019). DOI: 10.1016/j.brs ...

Forgiveness in the brain (from a 2020 study) 1. ... The anterior insula both responds to our own physical experience and also gets activated when we detect other people’s emotional expressions in the ...

Epileptic patients tested before potential surgery experienced an ecstatic aura when the dorsal anterior insula of the brain was stimulated, according to a new report in the journal Brain ...

Lead author Nadine Dijkstra noted that while imagination does stimulate the same region, the signal is usually too weak to ...

Specifically, Niwa and colleagues found that the anterior insula-prelimbic cortex pathway played a crucial role during recognizing the novelty of other mice by modulating what they call “stable ...

Specifically, the rats’ empathy correlated with the brain’s sensory and orbitofrontal regions, as well as with the anterior insula. Meanwhile, the rodents’ decision to help was linked to activity in ...

Because a large number of brain regions are active during social interactions—including those related to attention, sensory processing, memory, emotion, and cognition—the researchers had previously ...

Agony is contagious. If you drop a thick textbook on your toes, circuits in your brain’s pain center come alive. If you pick it up and accidentally drop it on my toes, hurting me, an overlapping ...