Ventromedial prefrontal cortex supports affective future simulation by integrating distributed knowledge

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 46, 2014, Pages 16550-16555

  Benoit, Roland G ^a,b   Szpunar, Karl K ^a,b   Schacter, Daniel L ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Episodic future thinking; Episodic memory; Functional MRI; Subjective value; Ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SIMULATION; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; ADOLESCENT; ANTICIPATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONNECTOME; DECISION MAKING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; IMAGINATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECOGNITION; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ANTICIPATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CONNECTOME; DECISION MAKING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NERVE NET; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84911909938     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1419274111     Document Type: Article

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