Abstract Information processing in specialized, spatially distributed brain networks underlies
the diversity and complexity of our cognitive and behavioral repertoire. Networks converge …

The insula is a brain structure implicated in disparate cognitive, affective, and regulatory
functions, including interoceptive awareness, emotional responses, and empathic …

Episodic memory has been analyzed in a number of different ways in both philosophy and
psychology, and most controversy has centered on its self-referential, autonoetic character …

An event memory is a mental construction of a scene recalled as a single occurrence. It
therefore requires the hippocampus and ventral visual stream needed for all scene …

Current researchers mostly agree that the self consists of both bodily and non-bodily
environmental information. The neural mechanism underlying the integration of this …

Owing to advances in neuroimaging technology, the past couple of decades have witnessed
a surge of research on brain mechanisms that underlie human cognition. Despite the …

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 …

The majority of functional neuroscience studies have focused on the brain's response to a
task or stimulus. However, the brain is very active even in the absence of explicit input or …

When thinking about the future or the upcoming actions of another person, we mentally
project ourselves into that alternative situation. Accumulating data suggest that envisioning …

Despite evidence pointing to a ubiquitous tendency of human minds to wander, little is
known about the neural operations that support this core component of human cognition …