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Self-Construal Priming Modulates Neural Substrates of Self-Awareness

Self-Construal Priming Modulates Neural Substrates of Self-Awareness We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to assess whether self-construal priming can change adults' self-awareness induced during face perception. After reading essays containing independent or interdependent pronouns (e.g., I or we), participants were scanned while judging the head orientation of images showing their own and familiar faces. Neural activity in the right middle frontal cortex was greater when participants viewed their own rather than familiar faces, and this difference was larger after independent than after interdependent self-construal priming. The increased right frontal activity for participants' own faces relative to familiar faces was associated with faster responses. Our findings suggest that the neural correlates of self-awareness associated with recognition of one's own face can be modulated by self-construal priming in human adults. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Psychological Science SAGE

Self-Construal Priming Modulates Neural Substrates of Self-Awareness

Psychological Science , Volume 18 (10): 6 – Oct 1, 2007

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SAGE
Copyright
© 2007 Association for Psychological Science
ISSN
0956-7976
eISSN
1467-9280
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01992.x
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17894602
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Abstract

We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to assess whether self-construal priming can change adults' self-awareness induced during face perception. After reading essays containing independent or interdependent pronouns (e.g., I or we), participants were scanned while judging the head orientation of images showing their own and familiar faces. Neural activity in the right middle frontal cortex was greater when participants viewed their own rather than familiar faces, and this difference was larger after independent than after interdependent self-construal priming. The increased right frontal activity for participants' own faces relative to familiar faces was associated with faster responses. Our findings suggest that the neural correlates of self-awareness associated with recognition of one's own face can be modulated by self-construal priming in human adults.

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Psychological ScienceSAGE

Published: Oct 1, 2007

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