Who am I really? : The ephemerality of the self-schema following vmPFC damage
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Who am I really? : The ephemerality of the self-schema following vmPFC damageAuthor (s)
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2023-07-21Publisher
Elsevier ScienceDirectISSN
0028-3932; 1873-3514Bibliographic citation
Stendardi, D., Giordani, L. G., Gambino, S., Kaplan, R., & Ciaramelli, E. (2023). Who am I really? The ephemerality of the self-schema following vmPFC damage. Neuropsychologia, 188, 108651.Type
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We studied the role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) in supporting the self-schema, by asking vmPFC patients, along with healthy and brain-damaged controls, to judge the degree to which they (or another ... [+]
We studied the role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) in supporting the self-schema, by asking vmPFC patients, along with healthy and brain-damaged controls, to judge the degree to which they (or another person) were likely to engage in a series of activities, and how confident they were in their responses. Critically, participants provided their judgments on two separate occasions, a week apart. Our underlying assumption was that a strong self-schema would lead to confident and stable self-related judgments. We observed that control groups exhibited higher across-session consistency for self-related compared to other-related judgments, while this self-advantage was absent in vmPFC patients. In addition, regression analyses showed that in control groups the level of confidence associated with a specific (self- or other-related) judgment predicted the stability of that judgment across sessions. In contrast, vmPFC patients’ confidence and rating consistency were aligned only for other-related judgments. By contrast, self-related judgments changed across sessions regardless of the confidence level with which they were initially endorsed. These findings indicate that the vmPFC is crucial to maintaining the self-schema and supporting the reliable retrieval of self-related information. [-]
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Neuropsychologia, Vol. 188 (September 2023)Funder Name
Italian Ministry of Education, University, and Research
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