Involvement of cortical midline structures in the processing of autobiographical information.

ABSTRACT: The term autobiographical self has been used to refer to a mental state that permits reflection on self-identity and personality and the answer to related questions (Damasio, 1998). It requires the retrieval and integrated assembly of memories of facts and events that define an individual's biography. The neural mechanisms behind this state have not been fully elucidated, but it has been suggested that cortical midline structures (CMSs) are critically involved in processing self-related information. To date, the investigation of the involvement of CMSs in autobiographical-self processes has largely focused on the comparison between self and other in relation to one domain of information, personality traits, and has yielded conflicting results. Here, we investigated how activity in CMSs var

SUBMITTER: Araujo HF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4121543 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature