“…Although it is well known that alpha is sensitive to changes in resting state activity level, as when shift from eyes open to eyes closed (Barry, Clarke, Johnstone, & Brown, 2009;Barry, Clarke, Johnstone, Magee, & Rushby, 2007;Chen, Feng, Zhao, Yin, & Wang, 2008;Nakao et al, 2013), the functional implications of this role in the resting state have not yet been fully explored. One such functional implication, however, may be indicated by our results-it seems to be a perfect candidate mechanism for neural mediation of the close relationship between resting state activity and selfrelatedness, the rest-self overlap.…”