The Future of Memory: Remembering, Imagining, and the Brain

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“suggest that visual imagery may be an essential and unifying representational format potentiating these processes.”

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“The default network has shown robust activation when people imagine future experiences [14, 22–23].”

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“Some key issues remain controversial, such as the nature of hippocampal contributions to episodic future thinking, and the related question of the extent to which neural and cognitive signatures of episodic future thinking are specific to imagining future experiences as opposed to atemporal imagining or imagining counterfactuals to past experiences”

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“Studies on this topic have indicated that episodic memory may be recruited for additional tasks where particular details of past experiences are leveraged to generate, or assemble and maintain, mental content that incorporates specific elements of prior events.”

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“Strikingly, during the past decade, episodic memory, and the neural processes that support it, have been found to be engaged during tasks beyond simple remembering that may also involve the retrieval and reconstruction of episodic details for completion, such as future thinking or simulation, decision making, and problem solving (for review, see Schacter et al. 2012;Moscovitch et al. 2016;Schacter”

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“Recent conceptual work has suggested that engagement of the hippocampus (and core network more broadly) is exhibited during generative tasks that nominally involve the retrieval and reconstruction of episodic details for completion, such as simulation, decision making, and problem solving”

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“The DMN is associated with cognitive processes that require internally-directed or self-generated thought, such as mind-wandering10, future thinking11, perspective taking12, and mental simulation13.”

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“Indeed, functional magnetic resonance imaging studies on healthy subjects reveal that the same brain activation patterns are generated when people imagine the future as when they remember the past [21–24]”

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“It has been well demonstrated that people tend to remember better those life-episodes, which are distinct and personally meaningful and, of importance for the present study, relate to the self or self-consciousness [21,24,28,30,124–126].”

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“These regions, including RSC, are believed to form a network that mediates both prospective thought and episodic memory49.”

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“Hippocampus and vmPFC are part of a MTL subsystem of the default network (74) that supports the formation of mental models based on mnemonic content during both memory retrieval and the simulation and encoding of future events (36, 75, 76).”

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“This article will be included because of the information regarding the differences between memory and imagination which could come into play when investigating Integrated Information Theory.”