Frontiers | The Hippocampus and Imagining the Future: Where Do We Stand?
K Wiebels • An fMRI investigation of the relationship between future imagination and cognitive flexibility
One of the leading researchers in this area is Donna Rose Addis, Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory and Aging and a senior scientist at the Rotman Research Institute in Toronto. Her work has redefined the function of episodic memory as being ‘primarily future-focused’, and she recently discovered that some parts of the hippoc
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One of the leading researchers in this area is Donna Rose Addis, Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory and Aging and a senior scientist at the Rotman Research Institute in Toronto. Her work has redefined the function of episodic memory as being ‘primarily future-focused’, and she recently discovered that some parts of the hippoc
... See moreRob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
RP Roberts • An fMRI investigation of the relationship between future imagination and cognitive flexibility
K Wiebels • An fMRI investigation of the relationship between future imagination and cognitive flexibility
Joanna Hoffman • Futures From Ruins
DL Schacter • An fMRI investigation of the relationship between future imagination and cognitive flexibility
Thinking about the future is remembering the future, putting memories together in a creative way to imagine a possible way things might turn out. Those brain pathways include the hippocampus (a key structure for memory) and the prefrontal cortex, which controls System 2, deliberative decision-making. It is our cognitive control center.* By engaging
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