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The construction system of the brain
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The ability to construct a hypothetical situation in one's imagination prior to it actually occurring may afford greater accuracy in predicting its eventual outcome. The recollection of past experiences is also considered to be a reconstructive process with memories recreated from their component parts. Construction, therefore, plays a critical role in allowing us to plan for the future and remember the past. Conceptually, construction can be broken down into a number of constituent processes although little is known about their neural correlates. Moreover, it has been suggested that some of these processes may be shared by a number of other cognitive functions including spatial navigation and imagination. Recently, novel paradigms have been developed that allow for the isolation and characterization of these underlying processes and their associated neuroanatomy. Here, we selectively review this fast-growing literature and consider some implications for remembering the past and predicting the future.
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“The ability of the hippocampus to support goal-directed learning and behaviour has been studied principally in spatial navigation (Buzsáki and Moser, 2013), but evidence suggests that this area also supports other advanced cognitive abilities that require prospection, such as imagination of fictive scenarios (Hassabis and Maguire, 2009).”
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“Further, the DMN is likely to support some of the most stable inferences available to embodied–embedded persons, with major nodes allowing for egocentric perspective—i.e., providing a subjective point of view in generating world models with spatial, temporal, and causal coherence—integrated memory, and even the foundations of selfhood (Dennett, 1992; Hassabis and Maguire, 2009; Northoff, 2012;”
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“These capacities afford the possibility of constructing rich causal world models (Hassabis and Maguire, 2009; Buchsbaum et al., 2012; Pearl and Mackenzie, 2018; MacKay, 2019), and as discussed below, preconditions for coherent conscious experience.”
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“as suggested by impaired counterfactual modeling with medial temporal lobe damage (Hassabis and Maguire, 2009; MacKay, 2019)”
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“I hypothesize, as others do (Mesulam, 2002; Hassabis and Maguire, 2009; Buckner, 2012), that the default mode network is necessary for the brain’s internal model.”
From The theory of constructed emotion: an active inference account of interoception and categorization (2016) · cites this paper as Hassabis and Maguire, 2009
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“This intimate connection between memory and imagination (Hassabis, Kumaran, and Maguire 2007; Hassabis, Kumaran, Vann et al. 2007; Hassabis and Maguire 2009; Romero and Moscovitch 2012) allows us not only to share our memories with others, but also to invent and share imaginary events with others.”
From How We Transmit Memories to Other Brains: Constructing Shared Neural Representations Via Communication (2017) · cites this paper as Hassabis and Maguire 2009
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“episodic memory retrieval causes activations in PFm and MFa that are specific for remembered events, as opposed to recently constructed (imagined) ones (106).”
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“Higher-level cognitive tasks such as prospective planning appear to share computational sub-problems with path-finding (Hassabis and Maguire, 2009)52.”
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The future of memory: remembering, imagining, and the brain
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- Authors
- Hassabis, D., & Maguire, E. A.
- Affiliations
- Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (GB)
- Venue
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Publisher
- The Royal Society
- Published
- 2009-05-12
- Volume
- 364
- Issue
- 1521
- Pages
- 1263-1271
- ISSN
- 0962-8436 (ISSN-L)
- 1471-2970
- PMC
- PMC2666702
- OpenAlex
- W2159210250
- Cited by
- 483
- References
- 76
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- FWCI
- 1.43
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Wellcome Trust (084218)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Functions and Memory
- Keywords
- mental constructions, memory reconstruction, imagination, prediction, planning, neural correlates of memory, spatial navigation, cognitive neuroscience of memory, episodic memory
- MeSH terms
- Brain, Concept Formation, Humans, Imagination, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Memory, Models, Neurological
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