A role for the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in self-generated episodic social cognition.

ABSTRACT: The human mind is equally fluent in thoughts that involve self-generated mental content as it is with information in the immediate environment. Previous research has shown that neural systems linked to executive control (i.e. the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex) are recruited when perceptual and self-generated thoughts are balanced in line with the demands imposed by the external world. Contemporary theories (Smallwood and Schooler, 2015) assume that differentiable processes are important for self-generated mental content than for its regulation. The current study used functional magnetic resonance imaging in combination with multidimensional experience sampling to address this possibility. We used a task with minimal demands to maximise our power at identifying correlates of self-generated

SUBMITTER: Konu D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7422831 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature