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Introduction The brain plays a key role in the perceptual regulation of exercise ... premotor and supplementary motor cortices and cerebellum), we found the activation of the regions associated with ...

dorsomedial prefrontal cortex and anterior insula). These regions of the brain are involved in important cognitive functions such as decision-making, memory, attention and emotional processing.