Dissociable Neural Substrates for Agentic versus Conceptual Representations of Self

Although humans generally experience a coherent sense of selfhood, we can nevertheless articulate different aspects of self. Recent research has demonstrated that one such aspect of self-conceptual knowledge of one's own personality traits-is subserved by ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vMPFC)....

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Main Authors: Powell, Lindsey J. (Author), Macrae, C. Neil (Author), Cloutier, Jasmin (Contributor), Metcalfe, Janet (Author), Mitchell, Jason P. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: MIT Press, 2010-12-20T16:45:48Z.
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