Future decision-making without episodic mental time travel

Hippocampus

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1215-1219

  Kwan, Donna ^a   Craver, Carl F ^b   Green, Leonard ^b   Myerson, Joel ^b   Boyer, Pascal ^b   Rosenbaum, R Shayna ^a,c  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Delay discounting; Episodic memory; Future imagining; Hippocampus; Patient K.C.

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EPISODIC MEMORY; FUTUROLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME;

AMNESIA; DECISION MAKING; FORECASTING; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84861348960     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20981     Document Type: Article

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