Memory, Imagination, and Predicting the Future: A Common Brain Mechanism?

Overview

Journal Neuroscientist

Publisher Sage Publications

Specialty Neurology

Date 2013 Jul 13

PMID 23846418

Citations 63

Authors

Sinead L Mullally

Eleanor A Maguire

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Abstract

On the face of it, memory, imagination, and prediction seem to be distinct cognitive functions. However, metacognitive, cognitive, neuropsychological, and neuroimaging evidence is emerging that they are not, suggesting intimate links in their underlying processes. Here, we explore these empirical findings and the evolving theoretical frameworks that seek to explain how a common neural system supports our recollection of times past, imagination, and our attempts to predict the future.

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