Neuroscience of Self-Regulation
Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: Recently, self-regulation has attracted increasing attention at both theoretical levels and practical applications.\nSelf-regulation, changing one’s responses based on some rules, values or standards, is a crucial key to success in life.\nMost self-regulation occurs in three domains : thought, emotion, and impulse control. Therefore, the aim of this article\nreviews diverse literature on self-regulation from the perspectives of neurobiology, limited resources, and strength\nmodel. First, the costs and benefits of self-regulation as well as its definition will be provided. From a neurobiological\nperspective, self-regulation is mainly involved in top-down control from the prefrontal cortex over subcortical areas related\nto thought, emotion, and impulse. Second, acts of self-regulation seem to depend on limited resources, of which\nblood glucose is a key energy component. Finally, in terms of strength model, self-regulation can be improved through\ntargeted exercises over a period of weeks.
Author: Yang‐Tae Kim
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3028011369