Memory, imagination, and predicting the future: A common brain mechanism?

Neuroscientist

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 220-234

  Mullally, Sinéad L ^a   Maguire, Eleanor A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

amnesia; episodic memory; fMRI; future; hippocampus; imagination; navigation; neuropsychology; prediction; prospection; scene construction; scenes; simulation

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EPISODIC MEMORY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; MEMORY; NEUROIMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THINKING; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUTUROLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; SIMULATION; ANIMAL; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MEMORY, EPISODIC; THINKING;

EID: 84900851785     PISSN: 10738584     EISSN: 10894098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073858413495091     Document Type: Review

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