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This COGSCI 180 Final Exam Verified Guide (2025/2026 Edition) explores the neuroscientific foundations of the self, focusing on the brain structures and neural mechanisms that create the continuous sense of personal identity, embodiment, and agency. The hippocampus and entorhinal cortex—alongside the default mode network (DMN)—are vital for constructing the narrative self, enabling individuals to perceive their lives as an ongoing, coherent story through memory integration and autobiographical continuity. The right superior parietal lobule plays a central role in maintaining body ownership and spatial awareness, distinguishing the boundaries between one’s own body and the external world. Meanwhile, the insula governs interoceptive awareness, allowing perception of physical sensations and emotional states, forming the foundation of the emotional and physical self. Together, these regions—interconnected through the frontal lobe, amygdala, limbic system, hippocampus, and anterior cingulate cortex—form a dynamic network supporting self-awareness, emotional regulation, and identity coherence. Neuroscientist Susan Greenfield emphasizes that identity formation depends on the establishment of robust, internally consistent thought processes and complex neural connections across distributed cortical regions. The sense of agency, or the awareness that one controls their own actions, arises through corollary discharge signals, which compare intended movements with actual outcomes, reinforcing the feeling of volitional control. When associative neural functions deteriorate—as seen in cases where individuals cannot connect symbolic meanings or metaphors—the continuity of identity weakens, reflecting a loss in higher-order integrative processing. Thus, the sense of self emerges not from a single brain center but from the integrative activity of multiple neural systems coordinating memory, perception, emotion, and agency, grounding our subjective experience of being a unified, self-aware individual.

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COGSCI 180 FINAL EXAM ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS VERIFIED LATEST UPDATED


what parts of the hippocampus and entorhinal
brain are cortex (also default mode network
associated with from alzheimer's studies)
our sense of self
being a
continuous story?
what part of the right superior parietal lobule
brain is associated
with our sense of
what constitutes
our body and
what doesn't?
what part of the insula
brain is associated
with our
awareness of our
physical and
emotional
self?
what constitutes our corollary discharge signals

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sense of self as an
individual
controlling our own
movements?
what connections connection between frontal lobe
allow us to be an and amygdala/limbic system,
integrated self connection between
that is aware of all prefrontal/anterior cingulate cortex
our memories and and hippocampus, and ventral
emotions? lateral prefrontal cortex

what brain insular cortex, the default mode network,
regions are most and parts of the prefrontal cortex
important to our
sense of self? (but
not centers for
self)
according to robust, long lasting, internally
Susan Greenfield, consistent thought processes and
what does identity complex neural connections
formation involve between multiple regions of the
the establishment brain
of?

how do there is an absence of associative

associative powers that allow a normal adult to

powers relate to see one thing in terms of something
else in all cases of people who
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sense of identity? haven't developed or lost their
sense of identity. (ex: not
understanding metaphors)


how are cases of reduced prefrontal activity and increased
those who don't levels of dopamine
have a sense of
identity or lost
their sense of
identity (the
young or having
schizophrenia)
characterized
neurologically?
hypofrontality neurological hallmark of schizophrenia,
loss of cortical gray matter




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