Attributing awareness to oneself and to others
Abstract
What is the relationship between your own private awareness of events and the awareness that you intuitively attribute to the people around you? In this study, a region of the human cerebral cortex was active when people attributed sensory awareness to someone else. Furthermore, when that region of cortex was temporarily disrupted, the person's own sensory awareness was disrupted. The findings suggest a fundamental connection between private awareness and social cognition.
- Publication:
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
- Pub Date:
- April 2014
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2014PNAS..111.5012K