Remembering what could have happened: Neural correlates of episodic counterfactual thinking
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Remembering what could have happened: neural correlates of episodic counterfactual thinking.
Recent evidence suggests that our capacities to remember the past and to imagine what might happen in the future largely depend on the same core brain network that includes the middle temporal lobe, the posterior cingulate/retrosplenial cortex, the inferior parietal lobe, the medial prefrontal cortex, and the lateral temporal cortex. However, the extent to which regions of this core brain netwo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neuropsychologia
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0028-3932
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.01.015