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- Title
Remembering the past to imagine the future: the prospective brain.
- Authors
Schacter, Daniel L.; Addis, Donna Rose; Buckner, Randy L.
- Abstract
A rapidly growing number of recent studies show that imagining the future depends on much of the same neural machinery that is needed for remembering the past. These findings have led to the concept of the prospective brain; an idea that a crucial function of the brain is to use stored information to imagine, simulate and predict possible future events. We suggest that processes such as memory can be productively re-conceptualized in light of this idea.
- Subjects
MEMORY research; BRAIN; MEMORY; BIOLOGICAL neural networks; CENTRAL nervous system; NEUROSCIENCES
- Publication
Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2007, Vol 8, Issue 9, p657
- ISSN
1471-003X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nrn2213