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Emotional-cognitive integration, the self, and cortical midline structures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 August 2005

Georg Northoff*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Magdeburg, 39120Magdeburg, Germanywww.nine3.com/gnorthoff/

Abstract:

Lewis discusses the dynamic mechanisms of emotional-cognitive integration. I argue that he neglects the self and its neural correlate. The self can be characterized as an emotional-cognitive unity, which may be accounted for by the interplay between anterior and posterior medial cortical regions. I propose that these regions form an anatomical, physiological, and psychological unity, the cortical midline structures (CMSs).

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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