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Self-Awareness Facts

Self-Awareness Facts

  • Researchers have proposed that an area of the brain known as the anterior cingulate cortex located in the frontal lobe region plays an important role in developing self-awareness.
  • Studies have also used brain imaging to show that this region becomes activated in adults who are self-aware.
  • However one study found that a patient retained self-awareness even with extensive damage to areas of the brain including the insula and the anterior cingulate cortex.



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