Marked disparities exist across healthy individuals in their ability to imagine scenes, recall autobiographical memories, think about the future and navigate world. The importance of hippocampus supporting these critical cognitive functions has prompted question whether differences hippocampal grey matter volume could be one source performance variability. Evidence date been somewhat mixed. In this study we sought mitigate issues that commonly affect types studies. Data were collected from a...

Autobiographical memory, future thinking, and spatial navigation are critical cognitive functions that thought to be related known depend upon a brain structure called the hippocampus.Surprisingly, direct evidence for their interrelatedness is lacking, as an understanding of why they might related.There debate about whether linked by underlying memory-related process or, has more recently been suggested, because each require endogenous construction scene imagery.Here, using large sample...

The hippocampus and ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) play key roles in numerous cognitive domains including mind-wandering, episodic memory, imagining the future. Perspectives differ on precisely how they support these diverse functions, but there is general agreement that it involves constructing representations composed of elements. Visual scenes have been deployed extensively neuroscience because are paradigmatic multielement stimuli. However, remains unclear whether scenes, rather...

Recalling the past, thinking about future, and navigating in world are linked with a brain structure called hippocampus. Precisely, how hippocampus enables these critical cognitive functions is still debated. The strategies people use to perform tasks associated have been under-studied, yet, such information could augment our understanding of processes neural substrates. Here, we devised deployed an in-depth protocol examine explicit used by 217 participants four naturalistic widely...

ABSTRACT Recalling the past, thinking about future and navigating in world are linked with a brain structure called hippocampus. Precisely how hippocampus enables these critical cognitive functions is still debated. The strategies people use to perform tasks associated have been under-studied, yet such information could augment our understanding of processes neural substrates. Here, we devised deployed an in-depth protocol examine explicit used by 217 participants four naturalistic widely...

Abstract The hippocampus and ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) play key roles in numerous cognitive domains including mind-wandering, episodic memory imagining the future. Perspectives differ on precisely how they support these diverse functions, but there is general agreement that it involves constructing representations comprised of elements. Visual scenes have been deployed extensively neuroscience because are paradigmatic multi-element stimuli. However, remains unclear whether...

Previous studies have reported that some objects evoke a sense of local three-dimensional space (space-defining; SD), while others do not (space-ambiguous; SA), despite being imagined or viewed in isolation devoid background context. Moreover, people show strong preference for SD when given choice with which to mentally construct scene imagery. When deconstructing scenes, retain significantly more than SA objects. It therefore seems might enjoy privileged role construction. In the current...

Abstract Autobiographical memory, future thinking and spatial navigation are critical cognitive functions that thought to be related, known depend upon a brain structure called the hippocampus. Surprisingly, direct evidence for their interrelatedness is lacking, as an understanding of why they might related. There debate about whether linked by underlying memory-related process or, has more recently been suggested, because each require endogenous construction scene imagery. Here, using large...

Abstract Marked disparities exist across healthy individuals in their ability to imagine scenes, recall autobiographical memories, think about the future and navigate world. The importance of hippocampus supporting these critical cognitive functions has prompted question whether differences hippocampal grey matter volume could be one source performance variability. Evidence date been somewhat mixed. In this study we sought mitigate issues that commonly affect types studies. Data were...

ABSTRACT Previous studies have reported that some objects evoke a sense of local three-dimensional space (space-defining; SD), while others do not (space-ambiguous; SA), despite being imagined or viewed in isolation devoid background context. Moreover, people show strong preference for SD when given choice with which to mentally construct scene imagery. When deconstructing scenes, retain significantly more than SA objects. It therefore seems might enjoy privileged role construction. In the...

Abstract Our lives unfold as sequences of events. We experience these events seamless, although they are composed individual images captured in between the interruptions imposed by eye blinks and saccades. Events typically involve visual imagery from real world (scenes), hippocampus is frequently engaged this context. It unclear, however, whether would be similarly responsive to unfolding that abstract imagery. Addressing issue could provide insights into nature its contribution event...