Specifying the self for cognitive neuroscience
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Cognitive neuroscience investigations of self-experience have mainly focused on the mental attribution of features to the self (self-related processing). In this paper, we highlight another fundamental, yet neglected, aspect of self-experience, that of being an agent. We propose that this aspect of self-experience depends on self-specifying processes, ones that implicitly specify the self by implementing a functional self/non-self distinction in perception, action, cognition and emotion. We describe two paradigmatic cases - sensorimotor integration and homeostatic regulation - and use the principles from these cases to show how cognitive control, including emotion regulation, is also self-specifying. We argue that externally directed, attention-demanding tasks, rather than suppressing self-experience, give rise to the self-experience of being a cognitive-affective agent. We conclude with directions for experimental work based on our framework.
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Recent theories suggest that the rostral ACC may be a node for more implicit emotion regulation, especially when not co-activated with aspects of the dorsal attention network.
“Recent theories suggest that the rostral ACC may be a node for more implicit emotion regulation, especially when not co-activated with aspects of the dorsal attention network (i.e., DLPFC, dorsal ACC; Christoff et al., 2011).”
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- Authors
- Christoff, K., Cosmelli, D., Legrand, D., & Thompson, E.
- Affiliations
- Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (CL)
- École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (FR)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Thompson, Evan
- Venue
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2011-03
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 104-112
- ISSN
- 1364-6613 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2021926028
- Cited by
- 286
- References
- 78
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 1.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- americanae.aecid.es
- Licence
- Locations
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Americanae (AECID Library) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion, public-domain)
- Funders
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (81188_1)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Embodied and Extended Cognition
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Free Will and Agency
- Keywords
- self-experience, agency, sensorimotor integration, homeostatic regulation, cognitive control, emotion regulation, attention, self-referential processing
- MeSH terms
- Attention, Cognition, Humans, Neurosciences, Perception, Self-Assessment, Feedback, Sensory
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