Journal article

Publication year: 2002

Pages: 2023-2026

Journal: NeuroReport

Volume number: 13

Issue number: 16

ISSN: 0959-4965

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1097/00001756-200211150-00006

Publisher: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins

Abstract: 
fMRI studies have shown that the perception of facial disgust expressions specifically activates the insula. The present fMRI study investigated whether this structure is also involved in the processing of visual stimuli depicting non-mimic disgust elicitors compared to fear-inducing and neutral scenes. Twelve female subjects were scanned while viewing alternating blocks of 40 disgust-inducing, 40 fear-inducing and 40 affectively neutral pictures, shown for 1.5 s each. Afterwards, affective ratings were assessed. The disgust pictures, rated as highly repulsive, induced activation in the insula, the amygdala, the orbitofrontal and occipito-temporal cortex. Since during the fear condition the insula was also involved, our findings do not fit the idea of the insula as a specific disgust processor.

Harvard Citation style: Schienle, A., Stark, R., Walter, B., Blecker, C., Ott, U., Kirsch, P., et al. (2002) The insula is not specifically involved in disgust processing: an fMRI study, NeuroReport, 13(16), pp. 2023-2026. https://doi.org/10.1097/00001756-200211150-00006

APA Citation style: Schienle, A., Stark, R., Walter, B., Blecker, C., Ott, U., Kirsch, P., Sammer, G., & Vaitl, D. (2002). The insula is not specifically involved in disgust processing: an fMRI study. NeuroReport. 13(16), 2023-2026. https://doi.org/10.1097/00001756-200211150-00006