Schacter Daniel L, Benoit Roland G, Szpunar Karl K
Department of Psychology and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.
Curr Opin Behav Sci. 2017 Oct;17:41-50. doi: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2017.06.002. Epub 2017 Jun 20.
Episodic future thinking refers to the capacity to imagine or simulate experiences that might occur in one's personal future. Cognitive, neuropsychological, and neuroimaging research concerning episodic future thinking has accelerated during recent years. This article discusses research that has delineated cognitive and neural that support episodic future thinking as well as the that episodic future thinking serves. Studies focused on mechanisms have identified a core brain network that underlies episodic future thinking and have begun to tease apart the relative contributions of particular regions in this network, and the specific cognitive processes that they support. Studies concerned with functions have identified several domains in which episodic future thinking produces performance benefits, including decision making, emotion regulation, prospective memory, and spatial navigation.
情景式未来思维是指想象或模拟个人未来可能发生的经历的能力。近年来，关于情景式未来思维的认知、神经心理学和神经影像学研究加速发展。本文讨论了相关研究，这些研究描绘了支持情景式未来思维的认知和神经机制，以及情景式未来思维所发挥的功能。专注于机制的研究已经确定了情景式未来思维背后的核心脑网络，并开始梳理该网络中特定区域的相对贡献，以及它们所支持的特定认知过程。关注功能的研究已经确定了情景式未来思维能带来表现优势的几个领域，包括决策、情绪调节、前瞻性记忆和空间导航。
