{"id":158,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-05T14:06:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:06:24","slug":"insula-for-emotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"INSULA = ISLAND for EMOTIONS?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Insular Cortex an island for emotions?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Non-invasive brain imaging reveals that the insular cortex is responsible for processing information from an array of often complex emotional and bodily states:
\n\u2022 pain,<\/span>
\n\u2022 memory,<\/span>
\n\u2022 empathy,<\/span>
\n\u2022 emotions,<\/span>
\n\u2022 gastric motility,<\/span>
\n\u2022 sounds and music,<\/span>
\n\u2022 language and speech,<\/span>
\n\u2022 bio-mechanical movements,<\/span>
\n\u2022 cravings for sweets, drugs, alcohol.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It is the wellspring of social emotions, like:<\/span>
\n\u2022 laughter and crying,<\/span>
\n\u2022 guilt and atonement,<\/span>
\n\u2022 pride and humiliation,<\/span>
\n\u2022 lust (orgasms) and disgust,<\/span>
\n\u2022 norm violations and moral intuition.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Researchers at Yale<\/span><\/a> recently identified two areas in the brain often associated with pain: the anterior cingulate cortex and insular cortex. They light up in response to (1) letting go of items you own and feel a connection to, and (2) when you feel physical pain from a cut or drinking coffee that\u2019s too hot. The more you\u2019ve committed financially or emotionally to something or someone, the more you want to stick with it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"
\nStill hoarding:<\/span>
\nClutter,
\nCravings, or
\nCompulsions?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

read more …<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Insular Cortex an island for emotions? Non-invasive brain imaging reveals that the insular cortex is responsible for processing information from an array of often complex emotional and bodily states: \u2022 pain, \u2022 memory, \u2022 empathy, \u2022 emotions, \u2022 gastric motility, \u2022 sounds and music, \u2022 language and speech, \u2022 bio-mechanical movements, \u2022 cravings for sweets,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9413,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/9413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}