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We aimed to investigate the associations between the focus of attention on the self and the oscillatory dynamics accompanying the processes of recognizing morphed images consisted of self and stranger faces. Forty-nine volunteers completed the Self Consciousness Scale, which contains the Private Self-Consciousness and Public Self-Consciousness/Social Anxiety subscales. During the 127-channel EEG recording, subjects were randomly presented morphed images of their own face with the face of a stranger. Spearman correlation analyses were conducted at a significance level of p < 0.005 for each subscale with each point of the time-frequency resolution of event-related spectral perturbations separately for the conditions when the participant recognized him/herself and in the condition when he/she did not. In the condition of not recognizing oneself in the morphed image, the Private Self-Consciousness subscale was positively related to delta rhythm synchronization. It could be assumed that in subjects with high scores on the Private Self-Consciousness subscale, the increase of delta synchronization could be related to the high level of arousal when perceiving morphed images of faces that do not seem like themselves. In the self-recognition condition, the Public Self-Consciousness/Social Anxiety subscale was positively related to an increase of theta rhythm. It could be suggested that subjects with а higher score on the Public Self-Consciousness/Social Anxiety subscale in the condition of recognizing themselves in a morphed image pay more attention to details, inconsistencies, and distortions of their own face.