Pre-reflective and reflective self-reference: A spatiotemporal EEG analysis

Esslen, Michaela; Metzler, Sibylle; Pascual-Marqui, Roberto D.; Jäncke, Lutz

doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.01.060

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“…ERSP yielded elevated power specifically in the lower alpha frequency range (8-9 Hz), during high self-related stimuli. Both ERP and ERSP findings are well in accord with previous EEG studies of self-relatedness (see Esslen, Metzler, Pascual-Marqui, & Jancke, 2008;Knyazev, 2013).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 90%

Resting state glutamate predicts elevated pre-stimulus alpha during self-relatedness: A combined EEG-MRS study on “rest-self overlap”

Bai

Nakao

et al. 2015

Social Neuroscience

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 90%

Resting state glutamate predicts elevated pre-stimulus alpha during self-relatedness: A combined EEG-MRS study on “rest-self overlap”

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Nakao

et al. 2015

Social Neuroscience

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“…We observed a ventral-dorsal shift of activation associated with emotion-introspection compared to activation associated with cognitive self-reflection: the latter was higher in anterior MPFC regions and relatively lower in posterior MPFC regions ( fig.2). This supports consideration of a more anterior cortical representation of cognitive self-referential processes (Amodio and Frith, 2006;Esslen et al, 2008;Moran et al, 2006) in regions that might have developed at later evolutionary stages.…”

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confidence: 66%

“…We expected to distinguish neural representations for both self-referential states in medial and lateral prefrontal cortex (Esslen et al, 2008;Moran et al, 2006;Northoff et al, 2006), and we considered influences on amygdalar activity indicating associations with emotion processing .…”

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Self-related awareness and emotion regulation

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The regulation of emotions is an ongoing internal process and often a challenge. Current related neural models concern the intended control of reactions towards external events, mediated by prefrontal cortex regions upon basal emotion processing as in the amygdala. Cognitive strategies to regulate emotions in the context of affective disorders or stress reduction, increasingly applied in clinical practice, are also related to mindfulness techniques. We questioned their effects on neural emotion processing and investigated brain activity during purely internal mental self-referential processes of making current emotions and self-related cognitions aware. Thirty healthy subjects performed a task comprising periods of cognitive self-reflection, of introspection for actual own emotions and feelings, and of a neutral condition, while they were scanned with functional magnetic resonance imaging. Brain activations of twenty-seven subjects during emotion-introspection and self-reflection, and also a conjunction of both, were compared with the neutral condition. The conditions of self-reflection and emotion-introspection showed distinguishable activations in medial and ventrolateral prefrontal areas, in parietal regions and in the amygdala. Notably, amygdala activity decreased during emotion-introspection and increased compared to 'neutral' during self-reflection. The results indicate that already the self-referential mental state of making the actual emotional state aware is capable of attenuating emotional arousal. This extends current theories of emotion regulation and has implications for the application of mindfulness techniques as a component of psychotherapeutic strategies in affective disorders and also for possible everyday emotion regulation. AbstractThe regulation of emotions is an ongoing internal process and often a challenge. Current related neural models concern the intended control of reactions towards external events, mediated by prefrontal cortex regions upon basal emotion processing as in the amygdala. Cognitive strategies to regulate emotions in the context of affective disorders or stress reduction, increasingly applied in clinical practice, are also related to mindfulness techniques. We questioned their effects on neural emotion processing and investigated brain activity during purely internal mental selfreferential processes of making current emotions and self-related cognitions aware. Thirty healthy subjects performed a task comprising periods of cognitive self-reflection, of introspection for actual own emotions and feelings, and of a neutral condition, while they were scanned with functional magnetic resonance imaging. Brain activations of twenty-seven subjects during emotion-introspection and self-reflection, and also a conjunction of both, were compared with the neutral condition. The conditions of self-reflection and emotion-introspection showed distinguishable activations in medial and ventrolateral prefrontal areas, in parietal regions and in the amygdala. Notably, amygdala activ...

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“…Specifically, the right prefrontal area is considered to participate in neural processing that helps to distinguish one's self from others [26]. The results of this study show that motor perception of tool manipulation occurred offline as the participants viewed the video, which is in accordance with reports that the right prefrontal area is involved in numerous general self-referential actions [27].…”

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Brain activity and the perception of self-agency while viewing a video of hand grasping

Wakata

Morioka

2015

NeuroReport

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Self-agency is the recognition of one's own movement and plays a vital role in purposeful, voluntary movement. A sense of self-agency can be elicited in individuals who view their own simple finger movements as they are projected onto a screen and aligned with their actual hand position. Here, we examined whether individuals perceived self-agency when they viewed a video of a hand grasping a wooden cylinder and whether the perception of self-agency correlated with simultaneous changes in oxy-hemoglobin in the parietal or the prefrontal cortical areas. All participants reported the perception of self-agency, which was correlated with oxy-hemoglobin increases in the right prefrontal area. We conclude that self-agency also relates to hand-held objects displayed on video.

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Pre-reflective and reflective self-reference: A spatiotemporal EEG analysis

Cited by 77 publications

References 50 publications

Resting state glutamate predicts elevated pre-stimulus alpha during self-relatedness: A combined EEG-MRS study on “rest-self overlap”

Resting state glutamate predicts elevated pre-stimulus alpha during self-relatedness: A combined EEG-MRS study on “rest-self overlap”

Self-related awareness and emotion regulation

Brain activity and the perception of self-agency while viewing a video of hand grasping

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