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Attempts to elucidate the brain correlates of self-awareness have existed for centuries. However, only now is a clear picture emerging. Based on case studies and modern neuroimaging, it appears that the right hemisphere and the prefrontal cortex, probably the right prefrontal cortex, is dominant for self-related processing. Studies implicating the right hemisphere/prefrontal cortex have focused on self-recognition, self-face recognition, autobiographical episodic memory and autonoetic consciousness. We present this evidence and argue that the right hemisphere/prefrontal cortex may be dominant for the self.