This difference between the two types of learning is highly significant, because the insula has been previously identified as a core structure of the Salience Network, which plays a central role in mediating access to attention and memory and switching between endogenously generated mental states (Default Mode Network) and exogenously generated cognitive activities (Cognitive Control Network) – these three networks are considered the core brain networks of cognition, according to Bressler and Menon [16] .
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