To their surprise, the scientists found that the primary somatosensory cortex did not respond to warmth. When they looked around further, they found neurons responding in a region at the side of the ...

Researchers of the Human Brain Project (HBP) have identified seven new areas of the human insular cortex, a region of the brain that is involved in a wide variety of functions, including ...

The brain’s insular cortex, which processes senses and emotions, controls reactions like approach to or avoidance of others through the action of the hormone oxytocin, a team of Boston College ...

Areas of the brain that help a person differentiate between what is real and what is imaginary have been uncovered in a new ...

The primary somatosensory cortex did not respond to warmth, but the researchers found neurons responding in a region at the side of the brain called the posterior insular cortex. A two-photon ...

Researchers of the Human Brain Project (HBP) have identified seven new areas of the human insular cortex, a region of the brain that is involved in a wide variety of functions, including self ...

When a word is "on the tip of the tongue," multiple regions of the brain spring into action, working to locate the missing ...

A similar method was used to suppress activity in a brain region known to regulate introspection, the insula cortex . Employing a blue-light sensitive channel opsin (iC++), Hsueh et. al sought to ...

Activity levels in a specific region of the brain predict whether we think something is real, irrespective of whether we've ...

had thinner cortex in the right anterior insula, a region tied to empathy and emotional regulation. These brain differences were associated with behavioral traits often linked to authoritarianism ...