Figure 1.

Schemata for experimental design. Experiment 1, in healthy subjects, allowed the regions involved in self‐related processing specifically to be identified. These results were then validated in the same experimental context as would be used in the scanning of DOC patients (i.e., in a block rather than event‐related design) in Experiment 2. The regions of interest identified in Experiment 1 were then applied to the analysis of the data obtained in Experiment 3, in which the patient was presented with their own name only.