Consciousness, self-awareness and the frontal lobes

By Donald T. Stuss, T. Picton, M. Alexander. 2001

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The frontal lobes are necessary for 'theory of mind'. (2001, unknown): “1999; Rogers et al., 1999a, b; Stuss et al., 2001).”
Impulsivity, Frontal Lobes and Risk for Addiction (2009, background): “When properly functioning, the frontal lobes equip individuals with the capacity to use past experience and knowledge to make sense of current behavior and to guide future selection of responses from their behavioral repertoire (Stuss et al., 2001).”
Possible links between self-awareness and inner speech: Theoretical background, underlying mechanisms, and empirical evidence (2004, background): “The consensus is that the prefrontal lobes play a central role (Stuss et al., 2001), but some believe that the right hemisphere is dominant for self-awareness (e.g., Keenan, 2003), whereas others think it is mainly located in the left hemisphere (e.g., Kurk et al., 2003); yet other propose that…”
Metacognitive evaluation, self-relevance, and the right prefrontal cortex (2004, background): “…evaluation regarding personal traits and abilities (Craik et al., 1999; Fossati et al., 2003; Johnson et al., 2002; Kelley et al., 2002), self-monitoring of current affective states (Frith and Frith, 1999), and ''theory of mind'' (ToM) (Goel et al., 1995; Happe et al., 1999; Stuss et al., 2001a).”