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Details for article 38 of 58 found articles
| Title: |
"Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who...?": Towards a Model of Visual Self-recognition |
| Author: |
Phillips, Mary L. |
| Appeared in: |
Cognitive neuropsychiatry |
| Paging: | Volume 1 (1996) nr. 2 pages 153-164 |
| Year: |
1996-05-01 |
| Contents: |
Self-recognition and self-awareness are processes fundamental to human development. This report describes the case of an 80-year-old woman who demonstrated the ''mirror sign'', an inability to recognise the reflection of oneself in a mirror. An attempt has been made to provide a cognitive neuropsychological explanation for this profound impairment in visual self-recognition, incorporating current cognitive theories of delusion formation and, specifically, delusions involving distorted appreciation of the self or others. We speculate that the impairment in visual self-recognition arises from deficits in visual and personal semantic memory related to bilateral hippocampal lesions, and that the greater extent of impairment in visual self-recognition compared with that for other familiar persons is possible evidence for a specific self-recognition process, represented as a separate ''self-identity node'' in the current face-processing model of Bruce and Young (1986). |
| Publisher: |
Psychology Press |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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