Auditory function physiology

ToUin D.J. and Yin T.C.T (2001). Investigation of spatial location coding in the lateral superior olive using virtual space stimulation. In Physiological and Psychophysical Bases of Auditory Function. Houtsma A.J.M., Kohhausch A., Prijs V.F., and Schoonhoven R. (Eds.), Maastricht Shaker Publishing, pp. 236-243. 

The insula, which lies between the temporal and parietal cortex, plays a major role in addiction. Neuronal action potentials from autonomic physiological events play a major role in emotions. Walter Cannon proposed in his book The Wisdom of the Body that the autonomic nervous system brings emotions to consciousness. The anterior insula collects olfactory, gustatory, vicero-autonomic, and limbic data, whereas the posterior insula is involved with auditory, somesthetic, and skeletomotor functions. fMRI indicates that the insula plays a major role in the experience of pain, anger, fear, disgust, happiness, and sadness. 

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