figure 13.12 What your brain may have looked like when you did the exercise at the beginning of this chapter. Researchers took brain images while participants engaged in the same sort of task you performed at the start of this chapter: reflecting on your personality. Self-reflecting is associated with activity in structures in the middle of the brain, in the frontal lobes (colored region on the right side of image on the left; and image on the right) and the cingulate cortex (large green-and-blue-colored region in the brain image on the left).