"Mirror, mirror on the wall, who...?": towards a model of visual self-recognition

Phillips, Mary L, Howard, R. and David, A. S. 1996. "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who...?": towards a model of visual self-recognition. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry 1 (2) , pp. 153-164. 10.1080/135468096396613

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Abstract

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).

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
ISSN:	1354-6805
Last Modified:	27 Nov 2015 16:10
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/82101

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