Unveiling the neural network involved in mentally projecting the self through episodic autobiographical memories.

ABSTRACT: Episodic autobiographical memory involves the ability to travel along the mental timeline, so that events of our own life can be recollected and re-experienced. In the present study, we tested the neural underpinnings of mental travel across past and future autobiographical events by using a spatiotemporal interference task. Participants were instructed to mentally travel across past and future personal (Episodic Autobiographical Memories; EAMs) and Public Events (PEs) during Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). We found that a distributed network of brain regions (i.e., occipital, temporal, parietal, frontal, and subcortical regions) is implicated in mental projection across past and future independently from the memory category (EAMs or PEs). Interestingly, we observed that most

SUBMITTER: Sulpizio V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11997103 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature