Cognitive neuroscience of human counterfactual reasoning
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Cognitive neuroscience of human counterfactual reasoning
Counterfactual reasoning is a hallmark of human thought, enabling the capacity to shift from perceiving the immediate environment to an alternative, imagined perspective. Mental representations of counterfactual possibilities (e.g., imagined past events or future outcomes not yet at hand) provide the basis for learning from past experience, enable planning and prediction, support creativity and...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1662-5161
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00420