A Common Anterior Insula Representation of Disgust Observation, Experience and Imagination Shows Divergent Functional Connectivity Pathways

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 3; no. 8; p. e2939
• Main Authors: Jabbi, Mbemba, Bastiaansen, Jojanneke, Keysers, Christian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 13.08.2008; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Bitter taste; Brain; Brain Mapping; Cerebral Cortex - physiology; Cognition & reasoning; Electromyography; Emotions; Experiments; Female; Fixation, Ocular; Functional morphology; Habituation; Habituation (learning); Humans; Imagery; Imagination; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Medical imaging; Medical research; Mental task performance; Neural networks; Neuroscience; Neuroscience/Behavioral Neuroscience; Neuroscience/Cognitive Neuroscience; Neuroscience/Experimental Psychology; Operculum; Perception; Phonetics; Pleasure-Pain Principle; Reading; Reference Values; Scripts; Semantics; Simulation; Social Behavior; Social perception; Substrates; Trends

Similar brain regions are involved when we imagine, observe and execute an action. Is the same true for emotions? Here, the same subjects were scanned while they (a) experience, (b) view someone else experiencing and (c) imagine experiencing gustatory emotions (through script-driven imagery). Capita...