The insula is a brain structure implicated in disparate cognitive, affective, and regulatory
functions, including interoceptive awareness, emotional responses, and empathic …

The brain is constantly bombarded by stimuli, and the relative salience of these inputs
determines which are more likely to capture attention. A brain system known as the'salience …

Recent work has indicated that the insula may be involved in goal-directed cognition,
switching between networks, and the conscious awareness of affect and somatosensation …

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 …

Meta-analytic summaries of neuroimaging studies point to at least two major functional-
anatomic subdivisions within the anterior insula that contribute to the detection and …

Historically, the insula was considered primary gustatory cortex. Now it is known to play a
more comprehensive role in the processing of sensory information, including acting as …

Salience Network of the Human Brain focuses on the multiple sources of stimuli that
compete for our attention, providing interesting discussions on how the relative salience …

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 …

The insula (originally called the ''island of Reil'') is emerging from its hiding place inside of
the human brain. It is easy to find articles and textbooks which show the lateral aspect of the …

The insula plays a key role in a wide range of brain processes, from viscerosensation and
pain to motivation, emotion, and cognitive control. While human neuroimaging studies in all …