The anterior insular cortex (AIC) is implicated in a wide range of conditions and behaviours,
from bowel distension and orgasm, to cigarette craving and maternal love, to decision …

Of the many brain events evoked by a visual stimulus, which are specifically associated with
conscious perception, and which merely reflect non-conscious processing? Several recent …

This article addresses the neuroanatomical evidence for a progression of integrative
representations of affective feelings from the body that lead to an ultimate representation of …

There is now a wealth of evidence that anterior insular and anterior cingulate cortices have a
close functional relationship, such that they may be considered together as input and output …

Despite the impressive complexity and processing power of the human brain, it is severely
capacity limited. Behavioral research has highlighted three major bottlenecks of information …

Under conditions of rapid serial visual presentation, subjects display a reduced ability to
report the second of two targets (Target2; T2) in a stream of distractors if it appearswithin200 …

In the phenomenon of attentional blink, identical visual stimuli are sometimes fully perceived
and sometimes not detected at all. This phenomenon thus provides an optimal situation to …

When a flashed stimulus is followed by a backward mask, subjects fail to perceive it unless
the target-mask interval exceeds a threshold duration of about 50 ms. Models of conscious …

Reflecting recent changes in the way cognition and the brain are studied, this thoroughly
updated fourth edition of this bestselling textbook provides a comprehensive and student …

A model of awareness based on interoceptive salience is described, which has an
endogenous time base that might provide a basis for the human capacity to perceive and …