A neural mechanism mediating the impact of episodic prospection on farsighted decisions
Benoit, Gilbert and Burgess, The Journal of Neuroscience 31(18), 2011, 6771-6779. Participants either imagined specific future spending events or estimated what money could buy. Imagining the future shifted choices toward options with larger long-term payoffs, reducing temporal discounting. Functional MRI implicated the medial rostral prefrontal cortex, whose activity predicted farsighted choices trial by trial and tracked the reward value of imagined events; the region also showed stronger coupling with the hippocampus.
Benoit, Gilbert and Burgess, The Journal of Neuroscience 31(18), 2011, 6771-6779. Participants either imagined specific future spending events or estimated what money could buy. Imagining the future shifted choices toward options with larger long-term payoffs, reducing temporal discounting. Functional MRI implicated the medial rostral prefrontal cortex, whose activity predicted farsighted choices trial by trial and tracked the reward value of imagined events; the region also showed stronger coupling with the hippocampus.
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Benoit, R. G., Gilbert, S. J., & Burgess, P. W. (2011). A neural mechanism mediating the impact of episodic prospection on farsighted decisions. The Journal of Neuroscience, 31(18), 6771-6779. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6559-10.2011 https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6559-10.2011