Body odors carry informational cues of great importance for individuals across a wide range
of species, and signals hidden within the body odor cocktail are known to regulate several …

Whether we feel sympathy for another, listen to our heartbeat, experience pain or negotiate,
the insular cortex is thought to integrate perceptions, emotions, thoughts, and plans into one …

The human posterior insula was shown to respond to a wide variety of stimulation
paradigms (eg pain, somatosensory, or auditory processing) in functional imaging …

Motor skill learning is associated with profound changes in brain activation patterns over
time. Associative and rostral premotor cortical and subcortical regions are mostly recruited …

Despite distinct peripheral and central pathways, stimulation of both the olfactory and the
gustatory systems may give rise to the sensation of sweetness. Whether there is a common …

Complementary neurophysiological recordings in macaques and functional neuroimaging in
humans show that the primary taste cortex in the rostral insula and adjoining frontal …

Functional imaging of human trigemino-nociceptive processing provides meaningful insights
into altered pain processing in head and face pain diseases. Although functional magnetic …

Food is an important sensory pleasure. The aim of this chapter is to outline what is currently
known about the neural basis for the hedonic representation of taste and flavor in lean …

The aim of the present study was to assess the effect of age on cerebral correlates of
olfactory induced negative emotions. We investigated 15 healthy women (aged 21–47) in a …

Virtual environments (VE) aim to reproduce life-like experiences, but despite indications that
the olfactory sense plays a significant role in everyday life, the integration of olfactory stimuli …