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Contextual Processing in Episodic Future Thought

Szpunar, K. K., Chan, J. C. K., McDermott, K. B.·2009·Cerebral Cortex

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Remembering events from one's past (i.e., episodic memory) and envisioning specific events that could occur in one's future (i.e., episodic future thought) invoke highly overlapping sets of brain regions. The present study employed functional magnetic resonance imaging to test the hypothesis that one source of this shared architecture is that episodic future thought--much like episodic memory--tends to invoke memory for known visual-spatial contexts. That is, regions of posterior cortex (within posterior cingulate cortex [PCC], parahippocampal cortex [PHC], and superior occipital gyrus [SOG]) elicit indistinguishable activity during remembering and episodic future thought, and similar regions have been identified as important for establishing visual-spatial contextual associations. In the present study, these regions were similarly engaged when participants thought about personal events in familiar contexts, irrespective of temporal direction (past or future). The same regions, however, exhibited very little activity when participants envisioned personal future events in unfamiliar contextual settings. These findings suggest that regions within PCC, PHC, and SOG support the activation of well-known contextual settings that people tend to imagine when thinking about personal events, whether in the past or future. Hence, this study pinpoints an important similarity between episodic future thought and episodic memory.

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Authors: Szpunar, K. K., Chan, J. C. K., & McDermott, K. B.
Affiliations: Washington University in St. Louis (US)
ORCID: Szpunar, K. K.
Chan, J. C. K.
McDermott, K. B.
Venue: Cerebral Cortex
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published: 2008-11-02
Volume: 19
Issue: 7
Pages: 1539-1548
ISSN: 1047-3211 (ISSN-L)
1460-2199
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn191
OpenAlex: W2111337285
Cited by: 132
References: 71
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FWCI: 4.13
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: Cerebral Cortex (publishedVersion)
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Funders: National Science Foundation (0236651)
Topics: Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Functions and Memory
Keywords: episodic memory, contextual processing, posterior cingulate cortex, parahippocampal cortex, superior occipital gyrus, temporal direction, personal events, familiarity, neural overlap
MeSH terms: Adult, Brain Mapping, Cognition, Cues, Female, Forecasting, Humans, Learning, Male, Mental Recall, Thinking, Young Adult

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