Sensory-specific predictive models in the human anterior insula [version 1; referees: 2 approved]

Expectations affect the subjective experience of pain by increasing sensitivity to noxious events, an effect underlain by brain regions such as the insula. However, it has been debated whether these neural processes operate on pain-specific information or on more general signals encoding expectation...

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Main Authors: Gil Sharvit, Patrik Vuilleumier, Corrado Corradi-Dell'Acqua
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: F1000 Research Ltd 2019-02-01
Series:F1000Research
Online Access:https://f1000research.com/articles/8-164/v1