Self-representation: Searching for a neural signature of self-consciousness

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 529-543

  Newen, Albert ^a   Vogeley, Kai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agency; First person perspective; Neural correlates; Self representation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL HEALTH; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

EID: 0344946132     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-8100(03)00080-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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