An absence of afferent feedback concerning autonomically generated bodily states was associated with subtle impairments of emotional responses in PAF patients.

nature neuroscience • volume 4 no 2 • february 2001 

Neuroanatomical basis for first- and second-order representations of bodily states
H. D. Critchley1,2, C. J. Mathias2,3 and R. J. Dolan1