The cognitive neuroscience of constructive memory: remembering the past and imagining the future

By Daniel L. Schacter, Donna Rose Addis. 2007

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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The Brain's Default Network (2008, background): “Schacter and colleagues (2008), in this volume, explore the nature of cognitive processes linked to mental simulation (see also Tulving 2005, Gilbert 2006, Buckner & Carroll 2007, Schacter & Addis 2007, Schacter et al. 2007, Hassabis & Maguire 2007, Bar 2007, Gilbert & Wilson 2007).”
Social learning of fear (2007, background): “In addition, regions of MPFC implicated in simulation of future event”
Remembering the past to imagine the future: the prospective brain (2007, positive): “…but not of the past 27 . others have proposed that it might reflect the more intensive constructive processes that are required in order to imagine future events 36 . both past and future event tasks require the retrieval of information from memory, and hence both engage common memory networks.”
Collective future thought: Concept, function, and implications for collective memory studies (2016, positive): “Recent work in cognitive neuroscience has suggested that these dissociable memory systems may support dissociable forms of future thinking (Suddendorf and Corballis, 2007; for relevant discussion regarding the role of memory in giving rise to future thinking, see Schacter and Addis, 2007).”
Planning in young children: A review and synthesis (2011, neutral): “Other theorists have used the terms episodic future thinking (Atance & O’Neill, 2001, 2005), mental time travel to the future (Suddendorf & Busby, 2005; Suddendorf & Corballis, 2007), or constructive simulation of the future (Schacter & Addis, 2007) to capture a distinctive type of future thinking.”
Patterns of Brain Activity Supporting Autobiographical Memory, Prospection, and Theory of Mind, and Their Relationship to the Default Mode Network (2010, background): “Consistentwith studies comparing autobiographical memory and prospection, a common pattern of neural activity is observed (Schacter & Addis, 2007), although some subsystems may differ (Addis, Pan, Vu, Laiser, & Schacter, 2009).”
Using imagination to understand the neural basis of episodic memory (2007, background): “Recollection of this type of memory is widely accepted to be a reconstructive process (Bartlett, 1932; Schacter et al., 1998; Conway and Pleydell-Pearce, 2000; Rubin et al., 2003; Hassabis and Maguire, 2007; Schacter and Addis, 2007) as opposed to the simple retrieval of a perfect holistic record.”
Construal-Level Theory of Psychological Distance (2010, positive): “The present view is consistent with recent functional approaches to memory and cognition (Barsalou, 1999; Buckner & Carroll, 2007; Schacter & Addis, 2007; Suddendorf & Corballis, 2007).”
What does the retrosplenial cortex do? (2009, background): “Several theories have been advanced to account for the functions of this 'core network”
Adaptive Memory: Evolutionary Constraints on Remembering (2010, background): “It has been suggested that one of the primary functions of episodic memory, one reason why the system might have evolved, is to provide the key elements or building blocks from which future thoughts can be constructed (Schacter & Addis, 2007).”
The Common Neural Basis of Autobiographical Memory, Prospection, Navigation, Theory of Mind, and the Default Mode: A Quantitative Meta-analysis (2009, background): “The function of the medial-temporal lobe may also apply more broadly toward the construction of coherent scenes, events (Hassabis & Maguire, 2007 ), and mental models (Schacter & Addis, 2007 ).”
Functional-Anatomic Fractionation of the Brain's Default Network (2010, positive): “Schacter and Addis (2007) highlighted that future-oriented thoughts, which strongly drive activity in the default network, are inherently constructive, building on multiple episodic memories.”
Episodic Future Thinking: Mechanisms and Functions (2017, background): “One formulation of this view, referred to as the constructive episodic simulation hypothesis [11], holds that episodic memory supports future simulation by allowing people to flexibly retrieve and recombine elements of past experiences into novel representations of events that might occur in the fut”