Abstract: What we sense as a “self” emerges from stimuli both from within and without our body through complex levels of neural integration. The integration of memory and self is not a one-time occurrence but involves lifelong development. The autobiography of self is the accumulated unique mental narrative that emerges from our experiencing and participating in the fl ow of events and interpersonal encounters that reach a level of awareness critically facilitated by emotional tone. 1-6 Autobiographical memory plays an important role in the construction of personal identity. An individual’s construction of themselves through time serves the function of creating a coherent and largely favorable view of their present selves and circumstances. 7-11 The autobiographical self is a product of an extended consciousness that places a person in an individual history over time, aware of a lived past and anticipated future. From a multilevel coalescence of
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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