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ArticleNeuropsychologia2020

The core episodic simulation network dissociates as a function of subjective experience and objective content.

Preston P Thakral, Kevin P Madore, Daniel L Schacter

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Article in Neuropsychologia, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17 citing papers in PubMed.

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  14. The Ventral and Dorsal Default Mode Networks Are Dissociably Modulated by the Vividness and Valence of Imagined Events.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021
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  15. Evidence supporting a time-limited hippocampal role in retrieving autobiographical memories.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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  16. Modulation of hippocampal brain networks produces changes in episodic simulation and divergent thinking.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Preston P ThakralDepartment of Psychology, Harvard University, USA. Electronic address: prestonthakral@fas.harvard.edu.
Kevin P MadoreDepartment of Psychology, Stanford University, USA.
Daniel L SchacterDepartment of Psychology, Harvard University, USA.

Funding

EVENT RELATED NEUROIMAGING OF HUMAN MEMORY FORMATIONR01MH060941 · NIMH · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI SCHACTER, DANIEL L · 2000 to 2025
$9.5M
Interactions between goals, attention, and memory in younger and older adultsF32AG059341 · NIA · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI MADORE, KEVIN PAUL · 2018 to 2021
$222k
NIA NIH HHS F32 AG059341NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH060941
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Episodic simulation - the mental construction of a possible future event - has been consistently associated with enhanced activity in a set of neural regions referred to as the core network. In the current functional neuroimaging study, we assessed whether members of the core network are differentially associated with the subjective experience of future events (i.e., vividness) versus the objective content comprising those events (i.e., the amount of episodic details). During scanning, participants imagined future events in response to object cues. On each trial, participants rated the subjective vividness associated with each future event. Participants completed a post-scan interview where they viewed each object cue from the scanner and verbally reported whatever they had thought about. For imagined events, we quantified the number of episodic or internal details in accordance with the Autobiographical Interview (i.e., who, what, when, and where details of each central event). To test whether core network regions are differentially associated with subjective experience or objective episodic content, imagined future events were sorted as a function of their rated vividness or the amount of episodic detail. Univariate analyses revealed that some regions of the core network were uniquely sensitive to the vividness of imagined future events, including the hippocampus (i.e., high > low vividness), whereas other regions, such as the lateral parietal cortex, were sensitive to the amount of episodic detail in the event (i.e., high > low episodic details). The present results indicate that members of the core network support distinct episodic simulation-related processes.

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Memory, EpisodicAdultCuesFemaleHippocampusHumansImaginationMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMental RecallNerve NetParietal LobeThinkingYoung AdultAutobiographical interviewHippocampusImaginationParietal cortexRecallRecollectionVividness

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PMCPMC8397832

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