Neural substrates of envisioning the future

By Karl Szpunar, Jason M. Watson, Kathleen B. McDermott. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2007

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Fractionating the Default Mode Network: Distinct Contributions of the Ventral and Dorsal Posterior Cingulate Cortex to Cognitive Control (2011, background): “Increased activity is observed within the PCC when individuals direct attention internally (Shannon and Buckner, 2004; Szpunar et al., 2007).”
The proactive brain: memory for predictions (2009, background): “…MPC and the MTL have all been reported to show selective activation in recent studies of thinking about the past and the future (Burgess et al. 2001; Okuda & Fujii 2003; Addis et al. 2007; Buckner & Carroll 2007; Szpunar et al. 2007), consistent with the roles we have assigned here to this network.”
Contributions of episodic retrieval and mentalizing to autobiographical thought: evidence from functional neuroimaging, resting-state connectivity, and fMRI meta-analyses (2014, background): “, 2007) and imagine their autobiographical future (Addis et al., 2007; Andrews-Hanna et al., 2010a; D'Argembeau et al., 2009; Schacter et al., 2008, 2012; Spreng and Grady, 2010; Spreng et al., 2009; Szpunar et al., 2007).”
Conversion hystérique, hypnose et imagerie cérébrale (2010, neutral): “Furthermore, this area was reported to be specifically activated when envisioning future events from a first-person perspective (Szpunar et al., 2007).”
Coevolution of Composite‐Tool Technology, Constructive Memory, and Language (2010, background): “Lower Paleolithic wooden artifacts, such as the famous 400,000-year-old spears from Schoeningen (Thieme 1997), are also considered finely crafted tools evincing advanced skill and cognition.”
Episodic future thinking reduces reward delay discounting through an enhancement of prefrontal-mediotemporal interactions. (2010, background): “Compared to those of the control condition, BOLD responses to the presentation of the delayed reward in the episodic condition yielded highly significant activations (corrected for whole-brain volume) in an extensive network of brain regions previously implicated in episodic future thinking (Addis e”
Flexible Memories: Differential Roles for Medial Temporal Lobe and Prefrontal Cortex in Cross-Episode Binding (2010, background): “While memory is most often considered in terms of its ability to recall the past, imagining and predicting future events relies on much of the same neural network (Okuda et al., 2003; Addis et al., 2007, 2009; Hassabis et al., 2007; Szpunar et al., 2007).”
The cognitive neuroscience of constructive memory: remembering the past and imagining the future (2007, background): “For instance, Szpunar et al. (2007) instructed participants to remember specific past events, imagine specific future events or imagine specific events involving a familiar individual (Bill Clinton) in response to event cues (e.g. past birthday, retirement party).”
Are episodic memories special? On the sameness of remembered and imagined event simulation (2018, background): “involved in imagining the future; together these studies were named one of Science’s Top Ten Breakthroughs for 2007 (Addis, Wong et al. 2007; Hassabis et al. 2007; Szpunar et al. 2007; see also Okuda et al. 2003).”