During the past few years, there has been a dramatic increase in research examining the
role of memory in imagination and future thinking. This work has revealed striking similarities …

Successful behavior requires actively acquiring and representing information about the
environment and people, and manipulating and using those acquired representations …

The ability to represent the world accurately relies on simultaneous coarse and fine-grained
neural information coding, capturing both gist and detail of an experience. The longitudinal …

Deciphering the neural mechanisms of social behavior has propelled the growth of social
neuroscience. The exact computations of the social brain, however, remain elusive. Here we …

Thirty years of brain imaging research has converged to define the brain's default network—
a novel and only recently appreciated brain system that participates in internal modes of …

People directly experience only themselves here and now but often consider, evaluate, and
plan situations that are removed in time or space, that pertain to others' experiences, and …

Humans and animals prefer immediate over delayed rewards (delay discounting). This
preference for smaller-but-sooner over larger-but-later rewards shows substantial …

Mental imagery is an experience like perception in the absence of a percept. It is a
ubiquitous feature of human cognition, yet it has been relatively neglected in the etiology …

The hippocampus is known to be recruited during the recall of experiences from our distant
past, despite evidence that memory traces in this region vanish over time. Extant theories of …

With time and experience, memories undergo a process of reorganization that involves
different neuronal networks, known as systems consolidation. The traditional view, as …