title: How does the 'rest-self overlap' mediate the qualitative and automatic features of self-reference?
abstract: The target article points out the qualitative and automatic features of self-reference while leaving open the underlying neural mechanisms. Based on empirical evidence about rest-self overlap and rest-stimulus interaction being special for self-related stimuli, I postulate that the resting state shows self-specific organization. The resting state's self-specific organization may be encoded by activity balances between different networks which in turn predispose the qualitative features of subsequent self-related stimulus-induced activity in, for instance, SAN as well as the automatic features of self-reference effects.
authors: a Institute of Mental Health Research , University of Ottawa , Ottawa , Canada.|b Center for Cognition and Brain Disorders , Hangzhou Normal University , Hangzhou , China.|c Center for Brain and Consciousness, Departments of Radiology and Psychiatry , Sheng Ho Hospital, Taipeh Medical University (TMU) , Taipeh , Taiwan.|d College for Humanities and Medicine , Taipeh Medical University (TMU) , Taipeh , Taiwan.|e ITAB , University of Chieti , Chieti , Italy.
authors: Georg
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authors: Northoff
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D006801:Humans; D012146:Rest