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Self-reflection and the inner voice: activation of the left inferior frontal gyrus during perceptual and conceptual self-referential thinking

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Morin, Alain, Hamper, Breanne·2012·The Open Neuroimaging Journal
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Inner speech involvement in self-reflection was examined by reviewing 130 studies assessing brain activation during self-referential processing in key self-domains: agency, self-recognition, emotions, personality traits, autobiographical memory, and miscellaneous (e.g., prospection, judgments). The left inferior frontal gyrus (LIFG) has been shown to be reliably recruited during inner speech production. The percentage of studies reporting LIFG activity for each self-dimension was calculated. Fifty five percent of all studies reviewed indicated LIFG (and presumably inner speech) activity during self-reflection tasks; on average LIFG activation is observed 16% of the time during completion of non-self tasks (e.g., attention, perception). The highest LIFG activation rate was observed during retrieval of autobiographical information. The LIFG was significantly more recruited during conceptual tasks (e.g., prospection, traits) than during perceptual tasks (agency and self-recognition). This constitutes additional evidence supporting the idea of a participation of inner speech in self-related thinking.

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  • Insular involvement in inner speech could represent increased self-awareness associated with inner speech.

    “Thus, insular involvement in inner speech could represent increased self-awareness associated with inner speech (Morin & Hamper, 2012; Morin & Michaud, 2007; Morin, 2009).”

    From Bridging phenomenology and neural mechanisms of inner speech: ALE meta-analysis on egocentricity and spontaneity in a dual-mechanistic framework (2023) · cites this paper as Morin & Hamper, 2012

    The Introduction (page unavailable) names the insula among regions associated with inner speech and among regions involved in self-related processing. The paper also links inner speech to self-reflection, but it does not specifically propose that insular activity during inner speech represents increased self-awareness. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Social Representations and Identity
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Mind wandering and attention
Keywords
self-reflection, inner speech, left inferior frontal gyrus, self-referential processing, agency, self-recognition, emotions, personality traits, autobiographical memory, prospection, brain activation

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

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