Carissa Philippi, who earned her doctorate in neuroscience at the UI in 2011, conducted a detailed self-awareness interview with Patient R and found he had a deep capacity for introspection, one of humans? most evolved features of self-awareness.
?During the interview, I asked him how he would describe himself to somebody,? says Philippi, now a postdoctoral research scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ?He said, ?I am just a normal person with a bad memory.??