The Neural Basis of Personal Goal Processing When Envisioning Future Events
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Episodic future thinking allows humans to mentally simulate virtually infinite future possibilities, yet this device is fundamentally goal-directed and should not be equated with fantasizing or wishful thinking. The purpose of this fMRI study was to investigate the neural basis of such goal-directed processing during future-event simulation. Participants were scanned while they imagined future events that were related to their personal goals (personal future events) and future events that were plausible but unrelated to their personal goals (nonpersonal future events). Results showed that imaging personal future events elicited stronger activation in ventral medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) and posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) compared to imaging nonpersonal future events. Moreover, these brain activations overlapped with activations elicited by a second task that assessed semantic self-knowledge (i.e., making judgments on one's own personality traits), suggesting that ventral MPFC and PCC mediate self-referential processing across different functional domains. It is suggested that these brain regions may support a collection of processes that evaluate, code, and contextualize the relevance of mental representations with regard to personal goals. The implications of these findings for the understanding of the function instantiated by the default network of the brain are also discussed.
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When imagining non-personal events, self-schema involvement decreases linearly with psychological closeness to the protagonist, as does engagement of ventromedial prefrontal regions mediating self-schemas.
“When imagining non-personal events (i.e., events that do not feature the self), the involvement of self-schemas decreases linearly with psychological closeness to the protagonist (de Vito, Gamboz, & Brandimonte, 2012) as does the engagement of ventromedial prefrontal regions mediating self-schemas (e.g., D' Argembeau et al., 2010;Szpunar et al., 2007).”
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Because non-personal events rely less on self-schema and have reduced complexity, associative strength, elaborateness, and proportional resolution, imagining them is associated with lower activity in many DMN regions relative to imagining personal events.
“With lower reliance on self-schema, as well as reductions in complexity, associative strength, elaborateness and proportional resolution, it is not surprising that imagining non-personal events is associated with lower activity levels in many DMN regions relative to imagining personal events (including parahippocampal cortex, posterior cingulate, and cuneus; e.g., D' Argembeau et al., 2010;Szpunar”
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Self-citationDoes goal relevant episodic future thinking amplify the effect on delay discounting?
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Self-citation
- Authors
- D'Argembeau, A., Stawarczyk, D., Majerus, S., Collette, F., Van der Linden, M., Feyers, D., Maquet, P., & Salmon, E.
- Affiliations
- 1University of Liège, Belgium
- University of Liège (BE)
- Venue
- Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
- Publisher
- MIT Press - Journals
- Published
- 2010-08-01
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 1701-1713
- ISSN
- 0898-929X (ISSN-L)
- 1530-8898
- OpenAlex
- W2136005653
- Cited by
- 194
- References
- 92
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 17 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 17 · 2014: 11 · 2013: 12 · 2012: 17
- FWCI
- 5.65
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva) (publishedVersion)
- Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRS
- Université de Liège (06/11-340)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Mind wandering and attention
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Keywords
- episodic future thinking, personal goals, ventromedial prefrontal cortex, posterior cingulate cortex, self-referential processing, default mode network
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Brain Mapping, Cerebral Cortex, Female, Forecasting, Goals, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Neuropsychological Tests, Oxygen, Psychological Theory, Self Concept, Semantics, Thinking, Young Adult
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