Preserved self-awareness following extensive bilateral brain damage to the insula, anterior cingulate, and medial prefrontal cortices.

It has been proposed that self-awareness (SA), a multifaceted phenomenon central to human consciousness, depends critically on specific brain regions, namely the insular cortex, the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), and the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). Such a proposal predicts that damage to thes...

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الحاوية / القاعدة:PLoS ONE
المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Carissa L Philippi, Justin S Feinstein, Sahib S Khalsa, Antonio Damasio, Daniel Tranel, Gregory Landini, Kenneth Williford, David Rudrauf
التنسيق: مقال
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3425501?pdf=render