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Error awareness and the insula: links to neurological and psychiatric diseases

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2013
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Title
Error awareness and the insula: links to neurological and psychiatric diseases
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2013
DOI 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00014
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Tilmann A. Klein, Markus Ullsperger, Claudia Danielmeier

Abstract

Becoming aware of errors that one has committed might be crucial for strategic behavioral and neuronal adjustments to avoid similar errors in the future. This review addresses conscious error perception ("error awareness") in healthy subjects as well as the relationship between error awareness and neurological and psychiatric diseases. We first discuss the main findings on error awareness in healthy subjects. A brain region, that appears consistently involved in error awareness processes, is the insula, which also provides a link to the clinical conditions reviewed here. Then we focus on a neurological condition whose core element is an impaired awareness for neurological consequences of a disease: anosognosia for hemiplegia (AHP). The insular cortex has been implicated in both error awareness and AHP, with anterior insular regions being involved in conscious error processing and more posterior areas being related to AHP. In addition to cytoarchitectonic and connectivity data, this reflects a functional and structural gradient within the insula from anterior to posterior. Furthermore, studies dealing with error awareness and lack of insight in a number of psychiatric diseases are reported. Especially in schizophrenia, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) the performance monitoring system seems impaired, thus conscious error perception might be altered.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Italy 4 1%
United States 3 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
France 2 <1%
Ghana 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Israel 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Other 2 <1%
Unknown 325 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 71 21%
Researcher 66 19%
Student > Master 47 14%
Student > Bachelor 26 8%
Student > Postgraduate 20 6%
Other 68 20%
Unknown 45 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 104 30%
Neuroscience 62 18%
Medicine and Dentistry 43 13%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 25 7%
Engineering 7 2%
Other 35 10%
Unknown 67 20%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 May 2023.
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#203
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