Trial reportHippocampus2012
Future decision-making without episodic mental time travel.
Trial report in Hippocampus, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.
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Who cites it
39 citing papers in PubMed.
- Active information sampling in health and disease.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2025Review
- Cross-species translational paradigms for assessing positive valence system as defined by the RDoC matrix.Journal of neurochemistry · 2025Review
- Positive autobiographical memory recall does not influence temporal discounting: an internal meta-analysis of experimental studies.Journal Of Economic Psychology · 2024Article
- The Hippocampus Contributes to Temporal Discounting When Delays and Rewards Are Experienced in the Moment.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Temporary amnesia from sleep loss: A framework for understanding consequences of sleep deprivation.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
- Temporal Construal Effects Are Independent of Episodic Future Thought.Psychological science · 2023Article
- Amygdala but not hippocampal damage associated with smaller social network size.Neuropsychologia · 2022Article
- Episodic future thinking predicts differences in delay discounting: The mediating role of hippocampal structure.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Subjective Time in Dementia: A Critical Review.Brain sciences · 2021Review
- Does Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Damage Really Increase Impulsiveness? Delay and Probability Discounting in Patients with Focal Lesions.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2021Article
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- Binge drinking is associated with altered resting state functional connectivity of reward-salience and top down control networks.Brain imaging and behavior · 2020Article
- Is it time? Episodic imagining and the discounting of delayed and probabilistic rewards in young and older adults.Cognition · 2020Article
- Links between autobiographical memory richness and temporal discounting in older adults.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Deliberating trade-offs with the future.Nature human behaviour · 2020Review
- Is Episodic Future Thinking Important for Instrumental Activities of Daily Living? A Study in Neurological Patients and Healthy Older Adults.Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists · 2019Article
- Why has evolution not selected for perfect self-control?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Comparing and Contrasting the Cognitive Effects of Hippocampal and Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Damage: A Review of Human Lesion Studies.Neuroscience · 2018Review
- Classic and recent advances in understanding amnesia.F1000Research · 2018Review
- Neural congruence between intertemporal and interpersonal self-control: Evidence from delay and social discounting.NeuroImage · 2017Article
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Abstract
Deficits in episodic memory are associated with deficits in the ability to imagine future experiences (i.e., mental time travel). We show that K.C., a person with episodic amnesia and an inability to imagine future experiences, nonetheless systematically discounts the value of future rewards, and his discounting is within the range of controls in terms of both rate and consistency. Because K.C. is neither able to imagine personal uses for the rewards nor provide a rationale for selecting larger future rewards over smaller current rewards, this study demonstrates a dissociation between imagining and making decisions involving the future. Thus, although those capable of mental time travel may use it in making decisions about future rewards, these results demonstrate that it is not required for such decisions.
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