Daniel L. Schacter, Donna Rose Addis and Randy L. Buckner (2007)
Abstract
A rapidly growing number of recent studies show that imagining
the future depends on much of the same neural machinery that is needed
for remembering the past. These findings have led to the concept of the prospective
brain; an idea that a crucial function of the brain is to use stored information
to imagine, simulate and predict possible future events. We suggest that processes
such as memory can be productively re-conceptualized in light of this idea.
"Given the adaptive priority of future planning,
we find it helpful to think of the brain
as a fundamentally prospective organ that is
designed to use information from the past
and the present to generate predictions about
the future. Memory can be thought of as a
tool used by the prospective brain to generate
simulations of possible future events."
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