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Many of the claims for the special status of self-related processing are premature given the evidence and that the various self-related research programs do not seem to be illuminating a unitary, common system, despite individuals’ subjective experience of a unified self Is self special? A critical review of evidence from experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience. […]

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Posted September 2, 2005 by thomasr

 
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Many of the claims for the special status of self-related processing are premature given the evidence and that the various self-related research programs do not seem to be illuminating a unitary, common system, despite individuals’ subjective experience of a unified self

Is self special? A critical review of evidence from experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience.

Gillihan SJ, Farah MJ.

Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. E-mail

Varied research findings have been taken to support the claim that humans’ representation of the self is “special,” that is, that it emerges from systems that are physically and functionally distinct from those used for more general purpose cognitive processing. The authors evaluate this claim by reviewing the relevant literatures and addressing the criteria for considering a system special, the various operationalizations of self, and how the studies’ findings relate to the conclusions drawn. The authors conclude that many of the claims for the special status of self-related processing are premature given the evidence and that the various self-related research programs do not seem to be illuminating a unitary, common system, despite individuals’ subjective experience of a unified self. Copyright (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved.

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