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In Cognition and Cognitive Psychology

Seminar · Cognition

Self as Processes (BACN Mid-career Prize Lecture 2023)

Jie Sui · University of Aberdeen, UK

Wed, Sep 13, 2023 · 15:15 UTC

An understanding of the self helps explain not only human thoughts, feelings, attitudes but also many aspects of everyday behaviour. This talk focuses on a viewpoint - self as processes. This viewpoint emphasizes the dynamics of the self that best connects with the development of the self over time and its realist orientation. We are combining psychological experiments and data mining to comprehend the stability and adaptability of the self across various populations. In this talk, I draw on evidence from experimental psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and machine learning approaches to demon

Recently, the self has become an important focus of conscious mind research. Neuroimaging studies reveal that the self emerges from the spontaneous activity of cortical midline structures (CMS). Prefrontal cortex structures are also mentioned prominently in consciousness theories such as higher-order and global workspace theories. This preliminary study aims to observe changes in frontal hemodynamics in response to self-related and non-self-related stimuli. The study included five healthy voluntary participants (mean age=25.6±5.986). Auditory stimuli containing the subject's own name (SON) wer