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The Hippocampus and Imagining the Future: Where Do We Stand?
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Recent neuroimaging work has demonstrated that the hippocampus is engaged when imagining the future, in some cases more than when remembering the past. It is possible that this hippocampal activation reflects recombining details into coherent scenarios and/or the encoding of these scenarios into memory for later use. However, inconsistent findings have emerged from recent studies of future simulation in patients with memory loss and hippocampal damage. Thus, it remains an open question as to whether the hippocampus is necessary for future simulation. In this review, we consider the findings from patient studies and the neuroimaging literature with respect to a new framework that highlights three component processes of simulation: accessing episodic details, recombining details, and encoding simulations. We attempt to reconcile these discrepancies between neuroimaging and patient studies by suggesting that different component processes of future simulation may be differentially affected by hippocampal damage.
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“For instance, conjunction errors (i.e., the integration of erroneous details into a memory) involve recombinations of details, and there is no reason to suggest this would be any different from the recombination process argued to underlie future imagination (Addis & Schacter, 2012;Schacter & Addis, 2007).”
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“associative processes during future simulation, specifically the recombination of details, as compared to the reintegration of the previously associated details comprising past events”
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“while some regions of the hippocampus are commonly engaged by remembering and imagining, the anterior hippocampus has been found to be more active when imagining versus remembering (Addis & Schacter, 2012).”
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- Authors
- Addis, D. R., & Schacter, D. L.
- Affiliations
- University of Auckland (NZ)
- Harvard University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Addis, Donna Rose
- Venue
- Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media SA
- Published
- 2012
- Volume
- 5
- Pages
- 173-173
- ISSN
- 1662-5161 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3251274
- OpenAlex
- W2144015419
- Cited by
- 285
- References
- 108
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 16.07
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by-nc
- Locations
- Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- Royal Society Te Apārangi (UOA0810)
- Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Australian Research Council (CE110001021)
- National Institute of Mental Health (MH 060941, R01MH060941)
- 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
- hippocampus, future simulation, future thinking, episodic memory, hippocampal lesions, memory loss, neuroimaging findings
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