An fMRI investigation of the relationship between future imagination and cognitive flexibility.

ABSTRACT: While future imagination is largely considered to be a cognitive process grounded in default mode network activity, studies have shown that future imagination recruits regions in both default mode and frontoparietal control networks. In addition, it has recently been shown that the ability to imagine the future is associated with cognitive flexibility, and that tasks requiring cognitive flexibility result in increased coupling of the default mode network with frontoparietal control and salience networks. In the current study, we investigated the neural correlates underlying the association between cognitive flexibility and future imagination in two ways. First, we experimentally varied the degree of cognitive flexibility required during future imagination by manipulating the disparateness

SUBMITTER: Roberts RP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5253082 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature