HNRS 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Prefrontal Cortex, Parietal Lobe, Temporal Lobe
27 Sep 2016
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Self in cognitive neuroscience cognitive neuroscience-the interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition defining the self. In neuroscience, the self is an umbrella term. It enncompasses related to self-reflection and self-knowledge, as well as personality, emotion, and self-regulation two selves. Ontological self-what the self is; the subjective center of personal experience. Epistemological self-the behavioral, affective, cognitive, and neural systems assumed to be causally responsible (at least in part) for providing the ontological self with knowledge of whom and what it is. Progress has been made on the cognitive and neurological bases of this. The bases of self-knowledge are empirically tested. Why do we experience th self as a phenomenological unity (as a whole)? neurocognitive systems. Episodic memories of one"s life events - hippocampus. Semantic summary representations of one"s personality traits - left prefrontal cortex; temporal lobe areas. Semantic knowledge of fact about one"s life - left prefrontal cortex; temporal lobe areas.
