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Self and brain: what is self-related processing?

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My work on the self is supported by the CIHR, the EJLB-CIHR Michael Smith Foundation, and the HDRF-ISAN.

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    In the last three decades, various studies about interoception (Park et al., 2016), body-related stimuli (e.g. one’s own face or one’s own agency of an action) (van Veluw and Chance, 2014), and self-related abstract stimuli/external environment stimuli (e.g. trait adjectives, geometrical figure) (Hu et al., 2016) lead to the idea that the self may intrinsically combine the body and natural/social environment (Craig, 2010; Park and Blanke, 2019; Qin and Northoff, 2011). For instance, it is proposed that pre-reflective selfhood emerges from one’s everyday experience through his/her body (Apps and Tsakiris, 2014; Limanowski and Blankenburg, 2013), from which external stimuli relevant to the self could be integrated and processed with better performance through processes like self-referential/related processing (de Greck et al., 2008; Northoff, 2016a, 2011, 2007; Sui and Humphreys, 2016, 2015). Considering the importance of the integration between bodily and external environment information for the self, we here propose a neural model of self which is based on a mechanism of how external stimuli can become self-related and thereby integrated within the self.

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