ArticleSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2021
An asymmetry in past and future mental time travel following vmPFC damage.
Article in Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06823193 (How Self-processing Affects Mental Time Travel), which is not on this map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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How Self-processing Affects Mental Time Travel: a Neuropsychological Study
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Cortical Gradients Support Mental Time Travel into the Past and Future: Evidence from Activation Likelihood Estimation Meta-analysis.Neuropsychology review · 2026Pooled it
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- From single scenes to extended scenarios: The role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in the construction of imagery-rich events.PloS one · 2026Article
- Depressive symptoms are associated with a poor orientation toward the past during future self-projection.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The role of vmPFC in accessing the temporality of life events for mental time travel.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Unveiling the neural network involved in mentally projecting the self through episodic autobiographical memories.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Scene construction deficits in adolescent PTSD are in sensory, rather than spatial, imagery.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Travelling beyond time: shared brain system for self-projection in the temporal, political and moral domains.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- The hippocampus dissociates present from past and future goals.Nature communications · 2024Article
- The vmPFC-IPL functional connectivity as the neural basis of future self-continuity impacted procrastination: the mediating role of anticipated positive outcomes.Behavioral and brain functions : BBF · 2024Article
- A Scoping Review on Movement, Neurobiology and Functional Deficits in Dyslexia: Suggestions for a Three-Fold Integrated Perspective.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Temporal Construal Effects Are Independent of Episodic Future Thought.Psychological science · 2023Article
- Present and future self in memory: the role of vmPFC in the self-reference effect.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2021Article
- Imagine before you leap: Episodic future thinking combined with transcranial direct current stimulation training for impulsive choice in repetitive negative thinking.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
The role of ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) in mental time travel toward the past and the future is debated. Here, patients with focal lesions to the vmPFC and brain-damaged and healthy controls mentally projected themselves to a past, present or future moment of subjective time (self-projection) and classified a series of events as past or future relative to the adopted temporal self-location (self-reference). We found that vmPFC patients were selectively impaired in projecting themselves to the future and in recognizing relative-future events. These findings indicate that vmPFC damage hinders the mental processing of and movement toward future events, pointing to a prominent, multifaceted role of vmPFC in future-oriented mental time travel.
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