Brain potentials related to seeing one's own name

Fischler, Ira; Young-Sun, Jin; Boaz, Timothy L.; Perry, Nathan W.; Childers, D. G.

doi:10.1016/0093-934x(87)90101-5

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“…As for the previous study, we observed significant differences in the P300 component as a function of ownership at centro-parietal and parietal midline electrodes sites. This finding is in line with previous ERP experiments exploring self-relevance (Miyakoshi et al, 2007;Ninomiya et al, 1998;Berlad & Pratt, 1995;Fischler et al, 1987).…”

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“…What they found in the ERP data was that, whereas self-relevant words generated a P300 component, words from the non-selfrelevant category did not. Given that P300s can be generated to stimuli with personal "emotional value" regardless of their contextual probability and task relevance (e.g., Johnston, Miller, & Burleson, 2004), Gray et al (2004) concluded that we do in fact devote greater attentional resources to self-relevant information (see also Ninomiya, Onitsuka, Chen, Sato, & Tashiro, 1998;Berlad & Pratt, 1995;Fischler, Jin, Boaz, Perry, & Childers, 1987).…”

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When “It” Becomes “Mine”: Attentional Biases Triggered by Object Ownership

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Bussel

Brebner

et al. 2011

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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General rightsThis document is made available in accordance with publisher policies. Please cite only the published version using the reference above. Full terms of use are available: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/pure/about/ebr-terms Abstract■ Previous research has demonstrated that higher-order cognitive processes associated with the allocation of selective attention are engaged when highly familiar self-relevant items are encountered, such as oneʼs name, face, personal possessions and the like. The goal of our study was to determine whether these effects on attentional processing are triggered on-line at the moment self-relevance is established. In a pair of experiments, we recorded ERPs as participants viewed common objects (e.g., apple, socks, and ketchup) in the context of an "ownership" paradigm, where the presentation of each object was followed by a cue indicating whether the object nominally belonged either to the participant (a "self " cue) or the experimenter (an "other" cue). In Experiment 1, we found that "self " ownership cues were associated with increased attentional processing, as measured via the P300 component. In Experiment 2, we replicated this effect while demonstrating that at a visualperceptual level, spatial attention became more narrowly focused on objects owned by self, as measured via the lateral occipital P1 ERP component. Taken together, our findings indicate that self-relevant attention effects are triggered by the act of taking ownership of objects associated with both perceptual and postperceptual processing in cortex. ■

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When “It” Becomes “Mine”: Attentional Biases Triggered by Object Ownership

Turk

Bussel

Brebner

et al. 2011

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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“…In fact, other, indirect evidence has also supported these findings. For example, when participants were asked to respond positively to an assumed "own" name and to reject as false all other names, including their real name, the N380 component of the evoked brain potential to the real name was more similar to that elicited by other names than was the N380 of the assumed name (Fischler, Jin, Boaz, Perry, & Childers, 1987). While the assumed name was not more familiar to participants than were the other names, the larger difference between this and the other names than between the real name and the others suggested that self-specificity is mostly due to self-relevance rather than to familiarity.…”

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The cognitive advantage for one’s own name is not simply familiarity: An eye-tracking study

Yang

Fang

et al. 2013

Psychon Bull Rev

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Eye-tracking technique and visual search task were employed to examine the cognitive advantage for one's own name and the possible effect of familiarity on this advantage. The results showed that fewer saccades and an earlier start time of first fixations on the target were associated with trials in which participants were asked to search for their own name, as compared to search for personally familiar or famous names. In addition, the results also demonstrated faster response times and higher accuracy in the former kind of trials. Taken together, these findings provide important evidence that one's own name has the potential to capture attention and that familiarity cannot account for this advantage.

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“…Its amplitude is particularly large when the rare or deviant stimulus is a word (Lew, Slimp, Price, Massagli, & Robinson, 1999) and when it is salient for the subject, for instance her or his own first name (e.g., Berlad & Pratt, 1995;Fischler, Jin, Boaz, Perry, & Childers, 1987;Muller & Kutas, 1996), and even more if spoken by a familiar voice (Holeckova, Fischer, Giard, Delpuech, & Morlet, 2006). As the P300 wave depends both on the probability of occurrence of the stimulus and its deviance, it is not possible to know whether this potential reflects the detection of the physical characteristics of the subject's own name stimulus (like its probability) or its intrinsic significance.…”

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Functional connectivity in the default network during resting state is preserved in a vegetative but not in a brain dead patient

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Tshibanda²,

Vanhaudenhuyse³

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Human Brain Mapping

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The clinical and para-clinical examination of residual self-consciousness in non-communicative severely brain damaged patients (i.e., coma, vegetative state and minimally conscious state) remains exceptionally challenging. Passive presentation of the patient's own name and own face are known to be effective attention-grabbing stimuli when clinically assessing consciousness at the patient's bedside. Event-related potential and functional neuroimaging studies using such self-referential stimuli are currently being used to disentangle the cognitive hierarchy of self-processing. We here review neuropsychological, neuropathological, electrophysiological and neuroimaging studies using the own name and own face paradigm obtained in conscious waking, sleep, pharmacological coma, pathological coma and related disorders of consciousness. Based on these results we discuss what we currently do and do not know about the functional significance of the neural network involved in ''automatic'' and ''conscious'' self-referential processing.

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Brain potentials related to seeing one's own name

Cited by 35 publications

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When “It” Becomes “Mine”: Attentional Biases Triggered by Object Ownership

When “It” Becomes “Mine”: Attentional Biases Triggered by Object Ownership

The cognitive advantage for one’s own name is not simply familiarity: An eye-tracking study

Functional connectivity in the default network during resting state is preserved in a vegetative but not in a brain dead patient

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