The Neurobiology of Imagination: Possible Role of Interaction-Dominant Dynamics and Default Mode Network
Luigi F Agnatipmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The Neurobiology of Imagination: Possible Role of Interaction-Dominant Dynamics and Default Mode Network
Imagination feeds off a shared unconscious These imaginaries feed off underlying mental modules—ways in which we all think—including our physical, social and moral intuitions and heuristics, which help us make sense of societies that are far more complex than our brains can cope with. These include ‘folk’ economics, politics and psychology,
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Note also that this view is consistent with and indeed emerges from the multi-component model of hippocampal contributions to episodic future simulation put forth by Addis and Schacter (2012), which links the hippocampus with distinct components of future simulations, including both retrieval of episodic details and recombining those details.
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The precuneus is involved in mental imagery concerning the self, episodic memory, and modeling other people’s views—all of which are main components of the DMN. Benedek and Jauk, psychologists specializing in research on creativity, note that “higher creativity is consistently associated with higher gray matter density in DMN regions, especially th... See more