Wait for the Second Marshmallow? Future-Oriented Thinking and Delayed Reward Discounting in the Brain
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Wait for the Second Marshmallow? Future-Oriented Thinking and Delayed Reward Discounting in the Brain
Our brains are equipped with the ability to mentally project us to the future so that we can explore potential actions and outcomes in advance. As Karl Popper famously said, we should ‘‘.let our false theories die in our stead’’ (Popper, 1963). Future-oriented thinking is indeed a basic operation of our proactive brain (Bar et al., 2007), and mental simulation serves the basis for many cognitiv...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neuron
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0896-6273
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.04.001