ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2022
A neural signature of the vividness of prospective thought is modulated by temporal proximity during intertemporal decision making.
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- Parahippocampal-ventromedial prefrontal cortex functional coupling mediates the association between subjective time perception and delay discounting.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Distinguishing deception from its confounds by improving the validity of fMRI-based neural prediction.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- The date/delay effect in intertemporal choice: A combined fMRI and eye-tracking study.Human brain mapping · 2024Article
- The intracortical myelin content of impulsive choices: results from T1- and T2-weighted MRI myelin mapping.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
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Why do people discount future rewards? Multiple theories in psychology argue that one reason is that future events are imagined less vividly than immediate events, thereby diminishing their perceived value. Here we provide neuroscientific evidence for this proposal. First, we construct a neural signature of the vividness of prospective thought, using an fMRI dataset where the vividness of imagined future events is orthogonal to their valence by design. Then, we apply this neural signature in two additional fMRI datasets, each using a different delay-discounting task, to show that neural measures of vividness decline as rewards are delayed farther into the future.
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