Experiencing past and future personal events: Functional neuroimaging evidence on the neural bases of mental time travel

Botzung, Anne; Denkova, Ekaterina; Manning, Lilianne

doi:10.1016/j.bandc.2007.07.011

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“…While this latter observation is in agreement with previous reports (Abraham et al 2008;Botzung et al 2008;Weiler et al 2010), it is not in accordance with Addis et al (2007a) who showed greater right anterior hippocampal activation for the future than for the past. The hippocampus plays different roles in past and future events.…”

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Distinct and common cerebral activation changes during mental time travel in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis patients

Ernst

Noblet

Denkova

et al. 2015

Brain Imaging and Behavior

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Mental time travel (MTT) entails the ability to mentally travel into autobiographical memory (AM) and episodic future thinking (EFT). While AM and EFT share common phenomenological and cerebral functional properties, distinctive characteristics have been documented in healthy and clinical populations. No report, to our knowledge, has informed on the functional underpinnings of MTT impairment in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients, hence the aim of this work. We studied 22 relapsing-remitting MS patients and 22 matched controls. Participants underwent an AM/EFT assessment using the Autobiographical Interview (Levine et al. 2002), followed by a functional MRI session. The latter consisted in AM and EFT tasks, distinguishing the construction and elaboration phases of events. The results showed impaired performance for AM and EFT in patients, accompanied by increased cerebral activations mostly located in the frontal regions, which extended to the parietal, lateral temporal and posterior regions during AM/EFT tasks, relative to healthy controls. Enhanced brain activations in MS patients were particularly evident during the EFT task and involved the hippocampus, frontal, external temporal, and cingulate regions. The construction phase required greater fronto-parieto-temporal activations in MS patients relative to both healthy controls, and the elaboration phase. Taking together, our results suggested the occurrence of cerebral activation changes in the context of MTT in MS patients, expressed by distinct and common mechanisms for AM and EFT. This study may provide new insights in terms of cerebral activation changes in brain lesion and their application to clinical settings, considering AM/EFT's central role in everyday life.

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Distinct and common cerebral activation changes during mental time travel in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis patients

Ernst

Noblet

Denkova

et al. 2015

Brain Imaging and Behavior

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“…Thus, savoring through reminiscence may well engage some of the same areas of the brain as does savoring through anticipation. However, compared to imagining future events, recalling past experiences appears to activate the medial pre-frontal cortex more strongly (Botzung et al, 2008)-results consistent with neurological studies of episodic, autobiographical memory.…”

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“…Additional fMRI research suggests that re-experiencing past events and pre-experiencing future events both activate a common neurocognitive system involving the joint contribution of medial temporal and medial prefrontal structures, including areas of the brain involved in selfreferential processing, dissociation from one's current state, and cognitive elaboration (Addis, Wong, & Schacter, 2007;Botzung, Denkova, & Manning, 2008). Thus, savoring through reminiscence may well engage some of the same areas of the brain as does savoring through anticipation.…”

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Understanding the Processes that Regulate Positive Emotional Experience: Unsolved Problems and Future Directions for Theory and Research on Savoring

Bryant¹,

Chadwick

Kluwe

2011

Intnl. J. Wellbeing

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. Understanding the processes that regulate positive emotional experience: Unsolved problems and future directions for theory and research on savoring. International Journal of Wellbeing, 1(1),[107][108][109][110][111][112][113][114][115][116][117][118][119][120][121][122][123][124][125][126] Abstract: In this paper, we focus on unanswered questions and future directions in positive psychology, with a special emphasis on savoring processes that regulate positive emotions. To advance our understanding of the savoring processes underlying positive experience, we highlight three unresolved issues that must be addressed: (1) discriminating the distinctive neuropsychological profiles associated with different savoring processes; (2) developing viable methods of measuring and analyzing the mediational mechanisms involved in real-time savoring; and (3) clarifying the developmental processes through which people acquire different strategies to savor positive experiences across the life span. We propose several potentially fruitful lines of attack aimed at addressing these unsolved problems, each of which requires new methods of assessment to advance theory and refine our conceptual understanding of savoring.

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“…However, there is indirect evidence which suggests that mental time travel to the past and mental time travel to the future are functions of distinct physiological processes: First, activity patterns within the DMN appear to differ depending on whether participants think about themselves in a present situation, or whether they imagine themselves in a future situation (Andrews-Hanna, 2012). Second, the hippocampus shows greater activity when someone is remembering past episodes as opposed to imagining the future (Abraham, von Cramon, & Schubotz, 2008;Botzung, Denkova, & Manning, 2008;Weiler, Suchan, & Daum, 2010). Third, we could recently show (using the tool also applied in the present study) that DMN disintegration under LSD is connected with reduced mental time travel to the past, but not to the future (Speth, Speth et al, 2016).…”

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As we fall asleep we forget about the future: A quantitative linguistic analysis of mentation reports from hypnagogia

Speth

Schloerscheidt

Speth

2016

Consciousness and Cognition

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Citation for published version (APA):Speth, J., Schloerscheidt, A. M., & Speth, C. (2016). As we fall asleep we forget about the future: a quantitative linguistic analysis of mentation reports from hypnagogia. Consciousness and Cognition, 45, 235-244. DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2016.08.014 General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in Discovery Research Portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.• Users may download and print one copy of any publication from Discovery Research Portal for the purpose of private study or research.• You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain.• You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal. Take down policyIf you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. AbstractWe present a quantitative study of mental time travel to the past and future in sleep onset hypnagogia. Three independent, blind judges analysed a total of 150 mentation reports from different intervals prior to and after sleep onset. The linguistic tool for the mentation report analysis grounds on established grammatical and cognitive-semantic theories, and proof of concept has been provided in previous studies. The current results indicate that memory for the future, but not for the past, decreases in sleep onset -thereby supporting preliminary physiological evidence at the level of brain function. While recent memory research emphasizes similarities in the cognitive and physiological processes of mental time travel to the past and future, the current study explores a state of consciousness which may serve to dissociate between the two. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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Experiencing past and future personal events: Functional neuroimaging evidence on the neural bases of mental time travel

Cited by 294 publications

References 74 publications

Distinct and common cerebral activation changes during mental time travel in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis patients

Distinct and common cerebral activation changes during mental time travel in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis patients

Understanding the Processes that Regulate Positive Emotional Experience: Unsolved Problems and Future Directions for Theory and Research on Savoring

As we fall asleep we forget about the future: A quantitative linguistic analysis of mentation reports from hypnagogia

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