Neural correlates of first-person perspective as one constituent of human self-consciousness

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 817-827

  Vogeley, K ^a,b,g   May, M ^c   Ritzl, A ^a   Falkai, P ^d   Zilles, K ^a,e   Fink, G R ^a,f  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c University of Armed Forces   (Germany)

^d SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g Department of Psychiatry ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CORTEX; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EGO; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXPERIMENT; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBJECT RELATION; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; REVIEW; SCANNING ELECTROCHEMICAL MICROSCOPY; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONSCIOUSNESS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 2942618671     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892904970799     Document Type: Review

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