Selfhood triumvirate: From phenomenology to brain activity and back again.
Consciousness and cognition November 1, 2020 Andrew A Fingelkurts, Alexander A Fingelkurts, Tarja Kallio-Tamminen 41 citations
Altering the sense of self through mental manipulation in experienced meditators causes corresponding changes in the brain's self-referential network (SRN). Participants induced states of increased or decreased witnessing agency, body-emotional agency, or narrative agency while EEG recorded their brain activity. The results strengthen evidence for a direct causal link between three specific aspects of subjective selfhood and three corresponding modules of the SRN. A new integrative model of dynamic interrelations among these SRN modules is proposed.