Nearly all the action was in "emotional" regions, such as the midcingulate cortex and the anterior insula.

几乎所有的一切都和“情绪性”区域有关，比如中扣带皮质和前脑岛。

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Brain imaging studies show that low offers activate the anterior insula, an area associated with feelings of disgust or anger.

大脑成像表明，当人们收到过低分成时，前脑岛中能引起厌恶、愤怒感觉的部分会被激活。

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Roger has nearly complete damage to his insula and anterior cingulate cortex, but his somatosensory cortex is completely intact.

罗格的色带环皮层的脑岛和外侧几乎完全损坏，但是他的躯体感觉皮层是完好的。

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They discovered that when people are offered an unfair split, a primal part of their brains known as the anterior insula sends out signals of disgust and anger.

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The reason for this, the UCLA life scientists found, seems to be that a brain region called the anterior insula, which is linked to disgust and is important for discerning untrustworthy faces, is less active in older adults.

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Interestingly, however, when people with hoarding disorder made similar decisions about discarding junk mail that didn't belong to them, they again showed unusual levels of activity in the anterior cingulate cortex and insula but in this case, their brain activity was much lower than normal.

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