Developmental Scaffolding of the Sense of Self: A Cognitive Neurorobotics Perspective

We can differentiate the self into two central aspects, one an embodied spatial perspectivity, the other a sense of transtemporal unity of experience. Drawing on evidence from psychology, neuroscience and robotics this talk will argue that with regard to both aspects, core capabilities are supported by sub-cortical systems available from birth that “scaffold” the acquisition of their cortical counterparts.