Affiliation:
1. Department of Psychology Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro Brazil
2. Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience King's College London London UK
3. Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust London UK
4. Division of Psychiatry University College London London UK
5. Faculty of Health and Life Sciences University of Exeter Exeter UK
Abstract
AbstractSelf‐awareness, the ability to take oneself as the object of awareness, has been an enigma for our species, with different answers to this question being provided by religion, philosophy, and, more recently, science. The current review aims to discuss the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying self‐awareness. The multidimensional nature of self‐awareness will be explored, suggesting how it can be thought of as an emergent property observed in different cognitive complexity levels, within a predictive coding approach. A presentation of alterations of self‐awareness in neuropsychiatric conditions will ground a discussion on alternative frameworks to understand this phenomenon, in health and psychopathology, with future research directions being indicated to fill current gaps in the literature.This article is categorized under:
Philosophy > Consciousness
Psychology > Brain Function and Dysfunction
Neuroscience > Cognition
Funder
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Subject
General Psychology,General Medicine,General Neuroscience
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