ArticleHuman brain mapping2019
Does the insula contribute to emotion-related distortion of time? A neuropsychological approach.
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- Emotional states affect the degree of duration distortion more than distortion direction: a meta-analytic research.Psychological research · 2025Pooled it
- Time perception changes in stroke patients: A systematic literature review.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Pooled it
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- Subjective Time in Ordinary and Non-ordinary States of Consciousness: How Interoceptive Feelings Inform Us About the Passage of Time.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025Review
- Interoceptive and Bodily Processing in Prospective and Retrospective Timing.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025Review
- Insights from Ecstatic Epilepsy: From Uncertainty to Metacognitive Feelings.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025Review
- Role of the subthalamic nucleus in perceiving and estimating the passage of time.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2023Article
- Does the insula contribute to emotion-related distortion of time? A neuropsychological approach.Human brain mapping · 2019Article
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The literature points to a large distributed brain network involved in the estimation of time. Among these regions, the role of the insular cortex is still poorly understood. At the confluence of emotional, interoceptive, and environmental signals, this brain structure has been proposed to underlie awareness of the passage of time and emotion related time dilation. Yet, this assumption has not been tested so far. This study aimed at exploring how a lesion of the insula affects subjective duration, either in an emotional context or in a non-emotional context. Twenty-one patients with a stroke affecting the insula, either left or right, were studied for their perception of sub and supra second durations. A verbal estimation task and a temporal bisection task were used with either pure tones or neutral and emotional sounds lasting between 300 and 1500 ms and presented monaurally. Results revealed that patients with a right insular lesion, showed less temporal sensitivity than both control participants and patients with a left insular lesion. Unexpectedly, emotional effects were similar in patients and control participants. Altogether, these results suggest a specific role of the right insula in the discrimination of durations, but not in emotion related temporal distortion. In addition, an ear × emotion interaction in control participants suggests that temporal processing of positive and negative sounds may be lateralized in the brain.
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