Self-Construal Priming Modulates Neural Substrates of Self-Awareness

@article{Sui2007SelfConstrualPM,
  title={Self-Construal Priming Modulates Neural Substrates of Self-Awareness},
  author={Jie Sui and Shihui Han},
  journal={Psychological Science},
  year={2007},
  volume={18},
  pages={861 - 866}
}
We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to assess whether self-construal priming can change adults' self-awareness induced during face perception. After reading essays containing independent or interdependent pronouns (e.g., I or we), participants were scanned while judging the head orientation of images showing their own and familiar faces. Neural activity in the right middle frontal cortex was greater when participants viewed their own rather than familiar faces, and this difference was… 
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