Imagining the future: Evidence for a hippocampal contribution to constructive processing

Hippocampus

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1150-1161

  Gaesser, Brendan ^a   Spreng, R Nathan ^b   Mclelland, Victoria C ^c   Addis, Donna Rose ^c   Schacter, Daniel L ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Autobiographical; Episodic memory; FMRI; Imagination; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGULAR GYRUS; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; BOLD SIGNAL; CONSTRUCTIVE PROCESSING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; ORBITAL CORTEX; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESSING; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE;

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL; EPISODIC MEMORY; FMRI; IMAGINATION; SIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGINATION; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84888128447     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22152     Document Type: Article

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