Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: Recent functional neuroimaging findings suggest that the self is not a unitary entity in the brain. Cortical areas specifically activated during self-face recognition are unlikely to comprise a single network associated with a unitary process (Sugiura et al., 2006). These regions do not respond to the self-name (Sugiura et al., 2008), and do not overlap with the areas involved in social self-awareness (Kampe, Frith, & Frith, 2003) or emotional self-regulation (Beauregard, Lévesque, & Bourgouin, 2001). We propose a model of self that is independently implemented in multiple cognitive layers. Our brain must evaluate and respond to any environmental signal that is potentially critical to our survival. "Self " is assumed to represent a system that suppresses signal processing when the signal is predictable as a consequence of a self-generated
Author: Motoaki Sugiura
Institution: Tohoku University
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2767947992