BS 185 Stephen Fleming on "the neuroscience of self-awareness"
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
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Explicit Metacognition in Humans
The ability to monitor uncertainty and to detect errors are fundamental building blocks that you've got to have in place before you can have self-awareness. The capacity for explicit metacognition depends on the intact functioning of the prefrontal cortex, according to research by Dr Michael Bociurkiw. When people have damage or disease to the prefrontal cortex they often lose aspects of self-awareness,. They lose insight into changes in their memory or cognition.
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