The Trajectory of Self

Lane, Timothy Joseph; Duncan, Niall W.; Cheng, Tony; Northoff, Georg

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2016.03.004

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“…We showed that self-reference changes particular functional processes – notably, self-reference increases binding between the features of stimuli and between different stages of processing. Lane and colleagues [2] provide an interesting comment on our article that suggests our theory of self-reference is compatible with Dennett’s philosophical perspective on the narrative nature of the self. Although the nature of the self has attracted the attention of both philosophers and scientists, the two disciplines have generated different perspectives on the functions of the self, largely due to their different methodologies.…”

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“…Lane and colleagues [2] argue that, on a practical level, Dennett and psychologists like us treat self as an artifact of social processes. Indeed, the mechanistic perspective of self-reference has been supported by evidence collected when people make reference to the self within the task that they are performing.…”

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Self-Reference Acts as a Golden Thread in Binding

Sui

2016

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

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In a recent article in this journal, Glyn Humphreys and I proposed a model of how self-reference enhances binding in perception and cognition [1]. We showed that self-reference changes particular functional processes; notably, self-reference increases binding between the features of stimuli and between different stages of processing. Lane and colleagues [2] provide an interesting comment on our article that suggests our theory of self-reference is compatible with Dennett's philosophical perspective on the narrative nature of the self. Although the nature of the self has attracted the attention of both philosophers and scientists, the two disciplines have generated different perspectives on the functions of the self, largely due to their different methodologies. For example, Dennett argues that the self is constituted through human narration on experience [3]. By contrast, work from psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists focuses on the functional and neural mechanisms of self-reference.

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Self-Reference Acts as a Golden Thread in Binding

Sui

2016

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

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“…The similarity between the effects of personal relevance and reward values may imply common cognitive and neural mechanisms governing the effects. Northoff and colleagues proposed that cortical and subcortical structures associated with self and reward processing are mediated by resting state activity (Northoff, 2016), which predicts the degree of reward-related activity (Duncan et al, 2013) and self-related activity (Lane et al, 2016). Although this account has an important application in understanding how different brain structures interact to consolidate high cognitive functions (including reward and self-referential), it does not shed light on the differential effects of personal relevance and reward values.…”

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“…The similarity in behavioural and neural effects of self and high reward raised the question to what extent these effects reflect each other (Northoff, 2016). The importance of this question stems from a continuing debate about whether the self reflects higher-order features of cognitive processes Sui, 2016), basic functions of the brain's spontaneous activity (Bai et al, 2016;Conway, Pothos, & Turk, 2016;Lane, Duncan, Cheng, & Northoff, 2016;Northoff, 2016), or the binding levels of processing (Sui & Humphreys, 2015a).…”

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Intertwining personal and reward relevance: evidence from the drift-diffusion model

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Psychological Research

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In their seminal paper 'Is our self nothing but reward', Northoff and Hayes (Biol Psychiatry 69(11):1019-1025, Northoff, Hayes, Biological Psychiatry 69(11):1019-1025, 2011) proposed three models of the relationship between self and reward and opened a continuing debate about how these different fields can be linked. To date, none of the proposed models received strong empirical support. The present study tested common and distinct effects of personal relevance and reward values by de-componenting different stages of perceptual decision making using a drift-diffusion approach. We employed a recently developed associative matching paradigm where participants (N = 40) formed mental associations between five geometric shapes and five labels referring personal relevance in the personal task, or five shape-label pairings with different reward values in the reward task and then performed a matching task by indicating whether a displayed shape-label pairing was correct or incorrect. We found that common effects of personal relevance and monetary reward were manifested in the facilitation of behavioural performance for high personal relevance and high reward value as socially important signals. The differential effects between personal and monetary relevance reflected non-decisional time in a perceptual decision process, and task-specific prioritization of stimuli. Our findings support the parallel processing model (Northoff & Hayes, Biol Psychiatry 69(11):1019-1025, Northoff, Hayes, Biological Psychiatry 69(11):1019-1025, 2011) and suggest that self-specific processing occurs in parallel with high reward processing. Limitations and further directions are discussed.

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“…Son yýllardaki çalýþmalar kendilik ile default mode network (resting state) arasýndaki belirgin örtüþ- meye vurgu yapmakta ve aralarýndaki iliþkiye dikkat çekmektedir (7,22,23,27,30,33,34). Kendilik'le iliþkili zihinsel süreçlerin istirahat durumunda belirgin olarak görüldüðü kabul edilmektedir (8,28,30,35). Bu baðlamda kortikal orta hat yapýlarda, kendilikle iliþkili uyaranlarýn nöronal iþlemlemesi, default mode network'daki (DMN) bölgelerle iliþkilendirilmektedir (7,2,23,28).…”

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Neural Correlates of Self: Models of Northoff and Damasio

2018

J Clin Psy

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Self has been one of the most controversial phenomenon in philosophy and psychology for a long time. More recently, self has been transferred in the field of neuroscience since 30 years and its neural correlates remain under the intense investigations. Proposals for theoretical conception of self have not yet achieved complete clarity. Efforts for linking the self with brain structures have been going on for many years. Naturally, these two states (theorization and experiments) process side by side. Therefore, neuroscientific studies diversify with regard to conceptual theorization of self. Many studies have shown that cortical midline structures (CMS) are important in self processing. In addition, it is commonly accepted the involvement of resting state activity during the self-related mental states. In this context, processing of self related stimulus in the cortical midline structures is associated with regions of default mode network (DMN). This review aims to investigate the self-related studies under the light of current neuroscientific data, the neuroscience model of Northoff proposed for the self, and to examine the self in the Damasio's framework in the context of consciousness.

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The Trajectory of Self

Cited by 13 publications

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Self-Reference Acts as a Golden Thread in Binding

Self-Reference Acts as a Golden Thread in Binding

Intertwining personal and reward relevance: evidence from the drift-diffusion model

Neural Correlates of Self: Models of Northoff and Damasio

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