Your sense of self is deeply tied to your memory – here’s how

A sense of self-awareness is strongly involved in episodic memory. It’s the feeling of personally remembering.
NPR

How your brain creates your sense of self

Much of our identities are constructed in our minds. Science writer Anil Ananthaswamy explores how disorders like schizophrenia and Alzheimer's can dramatically alter that sense of self. This segment ...
Psychology Today

Memory and the Sense of Self

Psychologist Daniel Kahneman made an important distinction between what he called the Experiencing Self and the Remembering Self. Thoughts, feelings, and sensations occurring now comprise the ...

How brain waves shape our sense of self

A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Communications, reveals how rhythmic brain waves known as alpha oscillations help us distinguish between our own body and the external world ...
EurekAlert!

Robotics and the sense of self in humans

Genova (Italy), 18 November 2024 - In a review paper published recently in Science Robotics a cognitive roboticist, cognitive psychologist and a psychiatrist discuss the concept of “sense of self” in ...