CellWell record HH-5063
Neural systems supporting interoceptive awareness
Critchley HD, Wiens S, Rotshtein P, Ohman A, Dolan RJ.
Nat Neurosci ยท 2004
In plain language
In an fMRI heartbeat-detection task, activity and grey matter volume in the right anterior insula predicted how accurately people could sense their own heartbeat, linking a specific brain region to individual differences in interoceptive accuracy.
- Evidence
- Established
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