Fig. 2: The results of the correlation of self-esteem with the strength of the recapitulation effect within the medial prefrontal cortex.
From: Self-esteem modulates the similarity of the representation of the self in the brains of others
A A portion of the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) that showed the most significant association with thinking of the self, relative to others from the functional localizer task and has been previously associated with self-evaluative processing. N = 107. B A scatter plot depicting the correlation between self-recapitulation strength and self-esteem within the MPFC. These results show that as self-esteem increases, self-recapitulation accuracy (i.e. correlation distance from the neural self-recapitulation analysis) decreases. Error bars reflect 95% confidence intervals. The scale of the values on the x-axis of the plot is inverted to increase the clarity of the interpretation of correlation distance as an inverse measure of self-recapitulation strength from these analyses. As the JFS has 36 questions scored on a five-point Likert scale, the lowest possible self-esteem score is 36, thus reflecting the lowest value on the y-axis. N = 107.
