Humans develop self-awareness during the second year of life
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Evidence from developmental psychology and mirror self-recognition studies indicates that human self-awareness and self-concept emerge during the second year of life.
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Tactile localization promotes infant self-recognition in the mirror-mark test.
2024 · cited by 7
Paper [5] examines mirror self-recognition as a milestone in self-awareness during human ontogenesis, developing in infancy.
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The self-reference memory bias is preceded by an other-reference bias in infancy.
2025 · cited by 3
Paper [7] demonstrates that the emergence of self-concept and self-reference memory bias occurs around 18 months, during the second year of life.