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The cognitive neuroscience of self‐awareness: Current framework, clinical implications, and future research directions

Year: 2023

Type: review

Abstract: Self-awareness, the ability to take oneself as the object of awareness, has been an enigma for our species, with different answers to this question being provided by religion, philosophy, and, more recently, science. The current review aims to discuss the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying self-awareness. The multidimensional nature of self-awareness will be explored, suggesting how it can be thought of as an emergent property observed in different cognitive complexity levels, within a predictive coding approach. A presentation of alterations of self-awareness in neuropsychiatric conditions will ground a discussion on alternative frameworks to understand this phenomenon, in health and psychopathology, with future research directions being indicated to fill current gaps in the literature. This article is categorized under: Philosophy > Consciousness Psychology > Brain Function and Dysfunction Neuroscience > Cognition.

Source: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science

DOI: 10.1002/wcs.1670

Authors: Daniel C. Mograbi, Simon Hall, Beatriz Arantes, Jonathan Huntley

Institutions: King's College London, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, University of Exeter, University College London

Language: English

Topic: Philosophy and Theoretical Science

Subfield: Philosophy

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,760