Self-Construal Priming Modulates Neural Substrates of Self-Awareness.
A study was conducted using functional magnetic resonance imaging to evaluate whether self-construal priming can change adults' self-awareness induced during face perception. Data were obtained from 12 adult participants who read essays containing independent or interdependent pronouns and were the...
| Published in: | Psychological Science. Vol. 18; no. 10; pp. 861 - 867 |
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October 2007
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| Summary: | A study was conducted using functional magnetic resonance imaging to evaluate whether self-construal priming can change adults' self-awareness induced during face perception. Data were obtained from 12 adult participants who read essays containing independent or interdependent pronouns and were then scanned while judging the head orientation of images showing their own and familiar faces. Findings revealed that neural activity in the right middle frontal cortex was greater when subjects viewed their own rather than familiar faces; this difference was larger after independent than after interdependent self-construal priming; and the increased right frontal activity for own faces was linked to faster responses. Findings imply that the neural correlates of self-awareness associated with recognition of one's own face can be modulated by self-construal priming in human adults. |
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