PMID- 22712038
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20211021
IS  - 1939-5086 (Electronic)
IS  - 1939-5078 (Print)
IS  - 1939-5078 (Linking)
VI  - 3
IP  - 4
DP  - 2012 Jul
TI  - The representation of self and person knowledge in the medial prefrontal cortex.
PG  - 451-470
LID - 10.1002/wcs.1183 [doi]
AB  - Nearly 40 years ago, social psychologists began applying the information 
      processing framework of cognitive psychology to the question of how humans 
      understand and represent knowledge about themselves and others. This approach 
      gave rise to the immensely successful field of social cognition and fundamentally 
      changed the way in which social psychological phenomena are studied. More 
      recently, social scientists of many stripes have turned to the methods of 
      cognitive neuroscience to understand the neural basis of social cognition. A 
      pervasive finding from this research is that social knowledge, be it about one's 
      self or of others, is represented in the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC). This 
      review focuses on the social cognitive neuroscience of self and person knowledge 
      in the MPFC. We begin with a brief historical overview of social cognition, 
      followed by a review of recent and influential research on the brain basis of 
      self and person knowledge. In the latter half of this review, we discuss the role 
      of familiarity and similarity in person perception and of spontaneous processes 
      in self and other-referential cognition. Throughout, we discuss the myriad ways 
      in which the social cognitive neuroscience approach has provided new insights 
      into the nature and structure of self and person knowledge. WIREs Cogn Sci 2012, 
      3:451-470. doi: 10.1002/wcs.1183 This article is categorized under: Neuroscience 
      > Cognition.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
FAU - Wagner, Dylan D
AU  - Wagner DD
AD  - Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Center for Cognitive 
      Neuroscience, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.
FAU - Haxby, James V
AU  - Haxby JV
AD  - Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Center for Cognitive 
      Neuroscience, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.
FAU - Heatherton, Todd F
AU  - Heatherton TF
AD  - Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Center for Cognitive 
      Neuroscience, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.
LA  - eng
GR  - R01 MH059282/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States
GR  - R01 MH059282-10/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
DEP - 20120507
PL  - United States
TA  - Wiley Interdiscip Rev Cogn Sci
JT  - Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science
JID - 101524169
PMC - PMC3375705
MID - NIHMS371019
EDAT- 2012/06/20 06:00
MHDA- 2012/06/20 06:01
PMCR- 2013/05/07
CRDT- 2012/06/20 06:00
PHST- 2012/06/20 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2012/06/20 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2012/06/20 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2013/05/07 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1002/wcs.1183 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Wiley Interdiscip Rev Cogn Sci. 2012 Jul;3(4):451-470. doi: 10.1002/wcs.1183. 
      Epub 2012 May 7.