When the future becomes the past: Differences in brain activation patterns for episodic memory and episodic future thinking

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 212, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 196-203

  Weiler, Julia A ^a   Suchan, Boris ^a   Daum, Irene ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

FMRI; Foresight; Hippocampus; Imagination; Mental time travel; Neuroimaging; Remembering

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUTUROLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGINATION; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THINKING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; THINKING; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953024976     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.04.013     Document Type: Article

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