TY - JOUR
T1 - Subjective mental time
T2 - The functional architecture of projecting the self to past and future
AU - Arzy, Shahar
AU - Collette, Sven
AU - Ionta, Silvio
AU - Fornari, Eleonora
AU - Blanke, Olaf
PY - 2009/11
Y1 - 2009/11
N2 - Human experience takes place in the line of mental time (MT) created through 'self-projection' of oneself to different time-points in the past or future. Here we manipulated self-projection in MT not only with respect to one's life events but also with respect to one's faces from different past and future time-points. Behavioural and event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging activity showed three independent effects characterized by (i) similarity between past recollection and future imagination, (ii) facilitation of judgements related to the future as compared with the past, and (iii) facilitation of judgements related to time-points distant from the present. These effects were found with respect to faces and events, and also suggest that brain mechanisms of MT are independent of whether actual life episodes have to be re-experienced or pre-experienced, recruiting a common cerebral network including the anteromedial temporal, posterior parietal, inferior frontal, temporo-parietal and insular cortices. These behavioural and neural data suggest that self-projection in time is a fundamental aspect of MT, relying on neural structures encoding memory, mental imagery and self.
AB - Human experience takes place in the line of mental time (MT) created through 'self-projection' of oneself to different time-points in the past or future. Here we manipulated self-projection in MT not only with respect to one's life events but also with respect to one's faces from different past and future time-points. Behavioural and event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging activity showed three independent effects characterized by (i) similarity between past recollection and future imagination, (ii) facilitation of judgements related to the future as compared with the past, and (iii) facilitation of judgements related to time-points distant from the present. These effects were found with respect to faces and events, and also suggest that brain mechanisms of MT are independent of whether actual life episodes have to be re-experienced or pre-experienced, recruiting a common cerebral network including the anteromedial temporal, posterior parietal, inferior frontal, temporo-parietal and insular cortices. These behavioural and neural data suggest that self-projection in time is a fundamental aspect of MT, relying on neural structures encoding memory, mental imagery and self.
KW - Episodic thinking
KW - Face
KW - Functional magnetic resonance imaging
KW - Human
KW - Mental time
KW - Self
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=70449722864&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.06974.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.06974.x
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C2 - 19912333
AN - SCOPUS:70449722864
SN - 0953-816X
VL - 30
SP - 2009
EP - 2017
JO - European Journal of Neuroscience
JF - European Journal of Neuroscience
IS - 10
ER -