Specifying the self for cognitive neuroscience |
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Authors: | Christoff Kalina Cosmelli Diego Legrand Dorothée Thompson Evan |
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Affiliation: | Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T1Z4, Canada. |
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Abstract: | 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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