Self-referential processing in our brain - A meta-analysis of imaging studies on the self

By Georg Northoff, Alexander Heinzel, Moritz de Greck, Felix Bermpohl, Henrik Dobrowolny, Jaak Panksepp. NeuroImage, 2006

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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A developmental, mentalization-based approach to the understanding and treatment of borderline personality disorder (2009, background): “The aFMC is involved in mentalizing (Frith & Frith, 2006; Gilbert et al., 2007) and self-referential processing (Northoff et al., 2006).”
Toward a Model for Assessing Level of Personality Functioning in DSM–5, Part I: A Review of Theory and Methods (2011, background): “The primary research team has shown in a series of studies (Ogrodniczuk, Piper, Joyce & McCallum, 1999 ; Piper et al, 1991 ; Piper, Boroto, Joyce, McCallum, & Azim, 1995 ; Piper, Joyce, McCallum, & Azim, 1993 , 1998; Piper, McCallum, Joyce, Rosie, & Ogrodniczuk, 2001 ; Piper et al, 2004 ) that”
Neural basis of extraordinary empathy and altruistic motivation (2010, result): “Consistent with prior social neuroscience studies of MPFC and the self (Amodio and Frith, 2006; Northoff et al., 2006), we suggest that MPFC response in the current study reflects greater self evaluative processing when viewing ingroup relative to outgroup members in pain, likely due to greater perc”
External focus of attention and autonomy support have additive benefits for motor performance in children (2017, background): “In contrast, internal focus instructions presumably result in an activation of the self (e.g., Northoff et al., 2006), with the consequence that movements are controlled more consciously, automaticity is disrupted, and muscular activation becomes inefficient (Wulf & Lewthwaite, 2010).”
Source monitoring 15 years later: What have we learned from fMRI about the neural mechanisms of source memory? (2009, background): “…tasks and with various other kinds of self-referential tasks (see Cavanna & Trimble, 2006; Macrae, Moran, Heatherton, Banfield, & Kelley, 2004; Northoff et al., 2006; Ochsner et al., 2005; Vogt & Laureys, 2005, for reviews) and “self-projection” tasks (e.g., envisioning future events; Buckner…”
Impact of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Training on Intrinsic Brain Connectivity (2011, background): “Anterior cortical midline structures such as dmPFC are considered crucial in transforming simple sensory processing into more complex self-referential processing (Northoff et al., 2006).”
Subregions of the human superior frontal gyrus and their connections (2013, positive): “Additionally, the SFGam is anatomically connected with the ACC which is a core node of the DMN and functionally correlated with the DMN, which suggests that the SFGam is a node of the DMN and is involved in self-referential processing (Northoff et al., 2006).”
Navigating Into the Future or Driven by the Past (2013, background): “Commitments, relationships, values, and convictions, even “the self” as a persisting entity, are a matter not just of how one has acted or is acting but of how one thinks about the future and how one will or would act in various futures (see Northoff et al., 2006).”
Meditation experience is associated with differences in default mode network activity and connectivity (2011, methodology): “First, given the primacy of the DMN in self-referential processing (33) and mind-wandering (2, 8), our primary preFig.”
Having a word with yourself: Neural correlates of self-criticism and self-reassurance (2010, background): “Insula activation is additionally associated with self-referential tasks (Northoff et al., 2006; Modinos et al., 2009) which most likely relate to the region's role in monitoring internal states.”
Cultures and Selves (2010, background): “Hundreds of surveys, laboratory experiments, and field studies have bolstered earlier theories and ethnographic observations, drawing attention to powerful variation in self and personhood.”
How is our self related to midline regions and the default-mode network? (2011, methodology): “non-self-specific stimuli, brain imaging studies observed neural activity changes in various medial cortical regions like the perigenual anterior cingulate cortex (PACC), medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) and the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) (Kelley et al., 2002; Mitchell et al., 2005; Northoff an”
Mapping the self in the brain's default mode network (2016, positive): “U N C O R R E C which regulates processes in the homeostatic-motivational domain, and dorsalMPFC,which represents higher cognitive ‘reflective’ thinking about oneself in relation to others (Moran et al., 2006; Northoff et al., 2006), suggests it integrates these information sources in performing thi”