Executive control is a complex high-level cognitive function that relies on distributed brain
circuitry. We propose that the anterior insular cortex plays an under-appreciated role in …

The insular cortex, or “Island of Reil,” is hidden deep within the lateral sulcus of the brain.
Subdivisions within the insula have been identified on the basis of cytoarchitectonics, sulcal …

Why has diffusion MRI become a principal modality for mapping connectomes in vivo? How
do different image acquisition parameters, fiber tracking algorithms and other …

Relatively discrete experimental literatures have grown to support the insula's role in the
domains of interoception, focal exteroceptive attention and cognitive control, and the …

Hidden beneath the Sylvian fissure and sometimes considered as the fifth lobe of the brain,
the insula plays a multi-modal role from its strategic location. Previous structural studies …

Anxiety is one of the most common clinical problems among children, adolescents, and
adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), yet we know little about its etiology in the …

The insula is a complex structure involved in a wide range of functions. Tracing studies on
nonhuman primates reveal a wide array of cortical connections in the frontal (orbitofrontal …

The role of interoception and its neural basis with relevance to drug addiction is reviewed.
Interoception consists of the receiving, processing, and integrating body-relevant signals …

Converging evidence from neuroimaging studies and computational modelling suggests an
organization of language in a dual dorsal–ventral brain network: a dorsal stream connects …

How is knowledge about the meanings of words and objects represented in the human
brain? Current theories embrace two radically different proposals: either distinct cortical …