Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Conscious Cogn. 2011 Mar;20(1):4-15. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2010.09.016. Epub 2010 Oct 15.
In spite of enormous recent interest in the neurobiology of the self, we currently have no global models of the brain that explain how its anatomical structure, connectivity, and physiological functioning create a unified self. In this article I present a triadic neurohierarchical model of the self that proposes that the self can be understood as the product of three hierarchical anatomical systems: The interoself system, the integrative self system, and the exterosensorimotor system. An analysis of these three systems and their functional features indicates that the neural hierarchy possesses features of both non-nested and nested hierarchies that are necessary for the creation of a unified consciousness and self. These functional properties also make the central nervous system a biologically unique entity unlike anything else in nature.
尽管最近人们对自我的神经生物学产生了浓厚的兴趣，但我们目前还没有能够解释大脑的解剖结构、连接和生理功能如何创造出一个统一的自我的全局模型。在本文中，我提出了一个自我的三重神经层次模型，该模型认为自我可以被理解为三个层次的解剖系统的产物：内感受系统、整合自我系统和外感觉运动系统。对这三个系统及其功能特征的分析表明，神经层次具有非嵌套和嵌套层次的特征，这些特征对于创造一个统一的意识和自我是必要的。这些功能特性也使中枢神经系统成为一种与自然界中任何其他事物都不同的生物独特实体。
