<p>Recognition of one’s own face is important for self-identification and is regarded as an indicator of self-awareness. Social anxiety is associated with a special focus on one’s own person. The aim of the present work was to investigate oscillatory responses associated with the processes of recognition/non-recognition of self in morphed images of faces and the links with social anxiety in these processes. A total of 48 volunteers (31 women) recognized themselves in morphed images of faces while EEG recordings were made using 128 electrodes. Recognition of self was associated with a greater increase in the θ rhythm in the time interval from 800 to 1500 msec than in the condition of non-recognition. Data on the relationship between the θ rhythm and attention and memory processes suggest that the increase in the θ rhythm may be associated with memory and attention processes in the perception of details, inconsistencies, and distortions of one’s own face. Social anxiety showed a positive association with the amplitude of the θ rhythm in the self-recognition condition, which may be related to the increased attention that socially anxious individuals focus on themselves and distortions of their own faces.</p>

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EEG Correlates of Recognition of Self in Morphed Images: Association with Social Anxiety

  • A. V. Bocharov,
  • A. N. Savostyanov,
  • A. E. Saprygin,
  • S. S. Tamozhnikov,
  • P. D. Rudych,
  • D. A. Lebedkin,
  • N. S. Milakhina,
  • E. A. Merkulova,
  • G. G. Knyazev

摘要

Recognition of one’s own face is important for self-identification and is regarded as an indicator of self-awareness. Social anxiety is associated with a special focus on one’s own person. The aim of the present work was to investigate oscillatory responses associated with the processes of recognition/non-recognition of self in morphed images of faces and the links with social anxiety in these processes. A total of 48 volunteers (31 women) recognized themselves in morphed images of faces while EEG recordings were made using 128 electrodes. Recognition of self was associated with a greater increase in the θ rhythm in the time interval from 800 to 1500 msec than in the condition of non-recognition. Data on the relationship between the θ rhythm and attention and memory processes suggest that the increase in the θ rhythm may be associated with memory and attention processes in the perception of details, inconsistencies, and distortions of one’s own face. Social anxiety showed a positive association with the amplitude of the θ rhythm in the self-recognition condition, which may be related to the increased attention that socially anxious individuals focus on themselves and distortions of their own faces.