Northoff Georg
a Institute of Mental Health Research , University of Ottawa , Ottawa , Canada.
b Center for Cognition and Brain Disorders , Hangzhou Normal University , Hangzhou , China.
Cogn Neurosci. 2016 Jan-Oct;7(1-4):18-20. doi: 10.1080/17588928.2015.1075483. Epub 2015 Aug 28.
The target article points out the qualitative and automatic features of self-reference while leaving open the underlying neural mechanisms. Based on empirical evidence about rest-self overlap and rest-stimulus interaction being special for self-related stimuli, I postulate that the resting state shows self-specific organization. The resting state's self-specific organization may be encoded by activity balances between different networks which in turn predispose the qualitative features of subsequent self-related stimulus-induced activity in, for instance, SAN as well as the automatic features of self-reference effects.
目标文章指出了自我参照的定性和自动特征,同时未阐明其潜在的神经机制。基于关于静息-自我重叠以及静息-刺激相互作用对自我相关刺激具有特殊性的经验证据,我推测静息状态呈现出自我特异性组织。静息状态的自我特异性组织可能由不同网络之间的活动平衡编码,这反过来又预先决定了后续自我相关刺激诱导活动在例如默认模式网络中的定性特征以及自我参照效应的自动特征。