Emotional and Social Dimension of Abstract Concepts Meet with Interoception in Right Anterior Insula.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience January 14, 2026 Martina Mancano, Costanza Papagno
According to the embodied cognition theory, which claims that concepts' representation is grounded in sensory and motor components, abstract concepts are grounded in interoception, which is processed in the Anterior Insula (AIns). However, it is not clear whether interoception and abstract concepts share common anatomical substrates, and if yes, whether AIns is one candidate. In this study, we...