Constructive memory: Past and future

Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 7-18

  Schacter, Daniel L ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Episodic memory; Episodic simulation; False memory; Future thinking; Hippocampus; Memory distortion; Neuroimaging

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; EPISODIC MEMORY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROIMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECALL; SIMULATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; THINKING;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COGNITION; FORECASTING; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS;

EID: 84861705464     PISSN: 12948322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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