Mental Time Travel? A Neurocognitive Model of Event Simulation

Addis, Donna Rose

doi:10.1007/s13164-020-00470-0

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“…Whether the memory is recent or remote does not matter. Although this view was controversial when we first proposed it in 1997 (Nadel & Moscovitch, 1997), it has gained traction, not only because we believe it accords with the evidence on systems consolidation that has accumulated since then (see below), but also because of evidence of hippocampal involvement in a variety of other functions including imagining fictitious scenes and scenarios, and imagining the future (Addis et al 2007b;Addis, 2020;Hassabis et al, 2007;Maguire & Hassabis, 2011;Maguire & Mullally, 2013;Moscovitch et al, 2016;Viard, Desgranges, Eustache & Piolino, 2012). It seems implausible that if the hippocampus is implicated in imagining the future, it would not also be implicated in reliving the past, no matter how remote.…”

Section: Basic Principles Of Systems Consolidation: a Neuro-psychological Representational Perspectivementioning

confidence: 85%

Systems consolidation, transformation and reorganization: Multiple Trace Theory, Trace Transformation Theory and their Competitors

Moscovitch¹,

Gilboa²

2021

Preprint

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We review the literature on systems consolidation by providing a brief history of the field to place the current research in proper perspective. We cover the literature on both humans and non-humans, which are highly related despite the differences in techniques and tasks that are used. We argue that understanding the interactions between hippocampus and neocortex (and other structures) that underlie systems consolidation, depend on appreciating the close correspondence between psychological and neural representations of memory, as postulated by Multiple Trace Theory and Trace Transformation Theory. We end by evaluating different theories of systems consolidation in light of the evidence we reviewed and suggest that the concept of systems consolidation, with its central concern with the time-limited role the hippocampus plays in memory, may have outlived its usefulness. We suggest replacing it with a program of research on the psychological processes and neural mechanisms that underlie changes in memory across the lifetime – a natural history of memory change.

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Section: Basic Principles Of Systems Consolidation: a Neuro-psychological Representational Perspectivementioning

confidence: 85%

Systems consolidation, transformation and reorganization: Multiple Trace Theory, Trace Transformation Theory and their Competitors

Moscovitch¹,

Gilboa²

2021

Preprint

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“…The recent proposal generating controversy is that kind C is imagining. Continuists propose that episodic rememberings are simply ‘imaginings of one's personal past’, that fall together with episodic counterfactual thoughts and episodic future thoughts into a broader class of ‘imaginings’ or ‘perceptual simulations’ (Addis 2020; Michaelian 2016c). ‘We tend to assume that it is one thing to genuinely remember the past and another to imagine it’, observes Kourken Michaelian, a prominent defender of continuism.…”

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What Sort of Imagining Might Remembering Be?

Langland‐Hassan¹

2021

J. of the Am. Philos. Assoc.

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This essay unites current philosophical thinking on imagination with a burgeoning debate in the philosophy of memory over whether episodic remembering is simply a kind of imagining. So far, this debate has been hampered by a lack of clarity in the notion of imagining at issue. Several options are considered and constructive imagining is identified as the relevant kind. Next, a functionalist account of episodic remembering is defended as a means to establishing two key points: first, one need not defend a factive (or causalist) view of remembering in order to hold that causal connections to past experiences are essential to how rememberings are typed; and, second, current theories that equate remembering with imagining are in fact consistent with a functionalist theory that includes causal connections in its account of what it is to remember. This suggests that remembering is not a kind of imagining and clarifies what it would take to establish the contrary.

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“…Such simulations rely on mental imagery and modality-specific systems for perception, action, emotion, and introspection ( Barsalou, 2008 ), their function being to provide a representation of the experiential content of events from an egocentric perspective—they depict what it would be like to experience the simulated event. Remembering past events and imagining future events both involve simulation processes ( Addis, 2020 ), but as such, event simulations are atemporal in nature, in that they lack a broader temporal context that situates events in the past, present, or future. The temporal context of event simulations is provided by autobiographical knowledge, which forms a cognitive representational system—a personal timeline—onto which simulated events can be mapped.…”

Section: An Integrative Framework Of the Cognitive Architecture Of Autobiographical Thinkingmentioning

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Memory, Future Thinking, and the Self. In Honour of Martial Van Der Linden

D’Argembeau

2021

Psychologica Belgica

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Over the past 20 years, much progress has been made in understanding the relations between memory and future thinking, and their role in shaping our sense of self and identity. My own interest in these research questions owes much to Martial Van der Linden, with whom I had the chance to interact closely for several years. The purpose of this article is to pay tribute to him by reviewing the work we initiated together on autobiographical memory and future-oriented thinking. I first review our early work on the relationship between memory and future thinking and discuss their role in selfrepresentation. Then, I provide an overview of the underlying neural bases and describe the alterations of autobiographical thinking that characterize certain psychological disorders. Finally, I outline an integrative framework that I recently proposed to account for the cognitive structure of past and future autobiographical thinking.

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Mental Time Travel? A Neurocognitive Model of Event Simulation

Cited by 147 publications

References 106 publications

Systems consolidation, transformation and reorganization: Multiple Trace Theory, Trace Transformation Theory and their Competitors

Systems consolidation, transformation and reorganization: Multiple Trace Theory, Trace Transformation Theory and their Competitors

What Sort of Imagining Might Remembering Be?

Memory, Future Thinking, and the Self. In Honour of Martial Van Der Linden

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