Browsing by Author "Legrand, Dorothée"

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    Clarifying the self: Response to Northoff
    (2011) Christoff, Katalina; Cosmelli Sánchez, Diego José; Legrand, Dorothée; Thompson, Evan
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    Specifying the self for cognitive neuroscience
    (2011) Christoff, Kalina; Cosmelli, Diego; Legrand, Dorothée; Thompson, Evan
    Cognitive neuroscience investigations of self-experience have mainly focused on the mental attribution of features to the self (self-related processing). In this paper, we highlight another fundamental, yet neglected, aspect of self-experience, that of being an agent. We propose that this aspect of self-experience depends on self-specifying processes, ones that implicitly specify the self by implementing a functional self/non-self distinction in perception, action, cognition and emotion. We describe two paradigmatic cases - sensorimotor integration and homeostatic regulation - and use the principles from these cases to show how cognitive control, including emotion regulation, is also self-specifying. We argue that externally directed, attention-demanding tasks, rather than suppressing self-experience, give rise to the self-experience of being a cognitive-affective agent. We conclude with directions for experimental work based on our framework.