Frontiers | The Hippocampus and Imagining the Future: Where Do We Stand?
Daniel L. Schacterfrontiersin.org
Frontiers | The Hippocampus and Imagining the Future: Where Do We Stand?
this other connectome is called the default mode network (DMN). The DMN allows for expansive, imaginative, and creative thinking. The back half of the DMN—called the posterior cingulate—facilitates your autobiographic memory, your personal history. This allows you to think back, draw upon, and pick apart the past. The front part, the medial
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Note also that this view is consistent with and indeed emerges from the multi-component model of hippocampal contributions to episodic future simulation put forth by Addis and Schacter (2012), which links the hippocampus with distinct components of future simulations, including both retrieval of episodic details and recombining those details.