The self is often described in terms of the narrative self, but the organization of first‑person experience extends beyond autobiographical continuity. The theory of self‑anchors introduces an architecture with three interacting axes: a stable self‑anchor, bodily grounding, and rhythm‑generating dynamics of the retrosplenial cortex. The stable self‑anchor is associated with the precuneus and...
Research on the self often uses a single term—'self'—to denote several disparate processes that differ in function, timescale, and neural organization: embodied first-person presence, autobiographical self-organization, explicit self-evaluation, and metacognitive monitoring. For their separate analysis, the theory introduces two levels of self—minimal and narrative—two modes of...