Editing Precuneus (section)

=== Self ===
[[Functional imaging]] has linked the precuneus to the processes involved in [[self-consciousness]], such as reflective self-awareness, that involve rating one's own personality traits compared to those judged of other people.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Kjaer TW, Nowak M, Lou HC | year = 2002 | title = Reflective self-awareness and conscious states: PET evidence for a common midline parietofrontal core | journal = NeuroImage | volume = 17 | issue = 2| pages = 1080–6 | doi = 10.1006/nimg.2002.1230 | pmid = 12377180 | s2cid = 23923373 | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref name="Lou">{{cite journal |vauthors=Lou HC, Luber B, Crupain M, Keenan JP, Nowak M, Kjaer TW, Sackeim HA, Lisanby SH |pmc=404216 | pmid = 15096584 |pages=6827–32 | year=2004 | title=Parietal cortex and representation of the mental Self. | volume=101 | issue=17 | doi=10.1073/pnas.0400049101 | journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America|bibcode=2004PNAS..101.6827L |doi-access=free }}</ref>

Electrical stimulation of the anterior portion can induce an [[out of body experience]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/2023/07/28/1190816885/this-sausage-shaped-part-of-your-brain-causes-out-of-body-experiences |title=This sausage-shaped part of your brain causes out-of-body experiences |author=Jon Hamilton |date=August 4, 2023 |publisher=NPR |work=Short Wave}}</ref>