Remembering and imagining alternative versions of the personal past.

ABSTRACT: Although autobiographical memory and episodic simulations recruit similar core brain regions, episodic simulations engage additional neural recruitment in the frontoparietal control network due to greater demands on constructive processes. However, previous functional neuroimaging studies showing differences in remembering and episodic simulation have focused on veridical retrieval of past experiences, and thus have not fully considered how retrieving the past in different ways from how it was originally experienced may also place similar demands on constructive processes. Here we examined how alternative versions of the past are constructed when adopting different egocentric perspectives during autobiographical memory retrieval compared to simulating hypothetical events from the personal

SUBMITTER: St Jacques PL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5733718 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature