Commentary: Attentional control and the self: The Self Attention Network (SAN).

Giuseppina Porciello,Ilaria Minio-Paluello,Ilaria Bufalari

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01701

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Commentary: Attentional control and the self: The Self Attention Network (SAN).

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Specialty section: This article was submitted to Cognition, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology
The authors review own-name effects, own-face effects and self-biases in associative matching and propose the “Self Attention Network” (SAN), a network model in which dorso-lateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and intra-parietal sulcus (IPS) exert top-down attention-mediated control over left posterior superior temporal sulcus (LpSTS) and ventro-medial prefrontal cortex which are instead respectively linked to bottom-up orienting of attention and self-related processing
We would like to speculate on how SAN adapts to situations where bodily self-representation is challenged by experimental manipulations that are able to blur self-other distinction, such as shared visuo-tactile stimulation

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Introduction

Specialty section: This article was submitted to Cognition, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology. The authors review own-name effects, own-face effects and self-biases in associative matching and propose the “Self Attention Network” (SAN), a network model in which dorso-lateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and intra-parietal sulcus (IPS) exert top-down attention-mediated control over left posterior superior temporal sulcus (LpSTS) and ventro-medial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) which are instead respectively linked to bottom-up orienting of attention and self-related processing.

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