Functional neuroimaging studies have started unravelling unexpected functional attributes
for the posteromedial portion of the parietal lobe, the precuneus. This cortical area has …

Positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
have been extensively used to explore the functional neuroanatomy of cognitive functions …

Finding one's way around an environment and remembering the events that occur within it
are crucial cognitive abilities that have been linked to the hippocampus and medial temporal …

Moral psychology has long focused on reasoning, but recent evidence suggests that moral
judgment is more a matter of emotion and affective intuition than deliberate reasoning. Here …

People can consciously re-experience past events and pre-experience possible future
events. This fMRI study examined the neural regions mediating the construction and …

Adult humans are capable of remembering prior events by mentally traveling back in time to
reexperience those events. In this review, the authors discuss this and other related …

Episodic memory is widely conceived as a fundamentally constructive, rather than
reproductive, process that is prone to various kinds of errors and illusions. With a view …

Romantic and maternal love are highly rewarding experiences. Both are linked to the
perpetuation of the species and therefore have a closely linked biological function of crucial …

Involuntary images and visual memories are prominent in many types of psychopathology.
Patients with posttraumatic stress disorder, other anxiety disorders, depression, eating …

Efforts to understand the functional architecture of the brain have consistently identified
multiple overlap** large-scale neural networks that are observable across multiple states …