Persistence of feelings and sentience after bilateral damage of the insula.

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Published in Cereb Cortex on April 03, 2012

Authors

Antonio Damasio1, Hanna Damasio, Daniel Tranel

Author Affiliations

1: Brain and Creativity Institute and Dornsife Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA. damasio@usc.edu

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