The hippocampus and imagining the future: Where do we stand?

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JANUARY 2012, 2012, Pages

  Addis, Donna Rose ^a,b   Schacter, Daniel L ^c  

^a ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN COGNITION AND ITS DISORDERS   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autobiographical; Episodic; Future; Hippocampus; Imagination; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN DAMAGE; DEMENTIA; EPISODIC MEMORY; FUTUROLOGY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; RETROGRADE AMNESIA; REVIEW; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84933674602     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00173     Document Type: Review

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