Yang et al. (2016) used fMRI to measure changes in neural activation when participants thought about either themselves or celebrities. While processing adjectives applied to themselves, activity in one region was found to be correlated with their self-esteem scores. What was the region?

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The orbitofrontal cortex is associated with processing information related to oneself, including aspects of self-reflection and self-esteem. Yang et al. (2016) found that activity in this region correlated with participants' self-esteem scores when they thought about adjectives applied to themselves.

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