Experiencing past and future personal events: Functional neuroimaging evidence on the neural bases of mental time travel

• Published in: Brain and cognition Vol. 66; no. 2; pp. 202 - 212
• Main Authors: Botzung, Anne, Denkova, Ekaterina, Manning, Lilianne
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: San Diego, CA Elsevier Inc 01.03.2008; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adult; Anatomical correlates of behavior; Autobiographical memory; Behavioral psychophysiology; Biological and medical sciences; Brain; Brain Hemisphere Functions; Brain Mapping; Cerebral Cortex - physiology; Cognitive Processes; Event-related fMRI; Female; Forecasting; Functional Laterality - physiology; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; HRF estimation analysis; Human; Humans; Imagination - physiology; Learning. Memory; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Memory; Mental Recall - physiology; Mental time travel; Neurology; Pre-experiencing; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Recall (Psychology); Reference Values; Self Concept; Time Perception - physiology; Travel; Pre-experiencing; Event-related fMRI; HRF estimation analysis; Mental time travel; Autobiographical memory; Human; Central nervous system; Cognition; Time; Prefrontal cortex; Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging; Encephalon; Hippocampus; Functional imaging

Functional MRI was used in healthy subjects to investigate the existence of common neural structures supporting re-experiencing the past and pre-experiencing the future. Past and future events evocation appears to involve highly similar patterns of brain activation including, in particular, the medi...