Institut des Neurosciences de la Timone, Aix-Marseille University, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13005 Marseille, France; The University of Sydney, Brain and Mind Centre and School of Psychology, 94 Mallett Street, Camperdown, NSW 2050, Australia.
The University of Sydney, Brain and Mind Centre and School of Psychology, 94 Mallett Street, Camperdown, NSW 2050, Australia.
Trends Cogn Sci. 2021 Apr;25(4):272-283. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2021.01.009. Epub 2021 Feb 19.
Much of the rich internal world constructed by humans is derived from, and experienced through, visual mental imagery. Despite growing appreciation of visual exploration in guiding episodic memory processes, extant theories of prospection have yet to accommodate the precise role of visual mental imagery in the service of future-oriented thinking. We propose that the construction of future events relies on the assimilation of perceptual details originally experienced, and subsequently reinstantiated, predominantly in the visual domain. Individual differences in the capacity to summon discrete aspects of visual imagery can therefore account for the diversity of content generated by humans during future simulation. Our integrative framework provides a novel testbed to query alterations in future thinking in health and disease.
人类构建的丰富内在世界在很大程度上来源于并通过视觉心理意象来体验。尽管人们越来越认识到视觉探索在引导情景记忆过程中的作用，但现有的展望理论尚未适应视觉心理意象在面向未来思维服务中的精确作用。我们提出，未来事件的构建依赖于对最初经历的感知细节的同化，随后主要在视觉领域重新体现。因此，个体在召唤离散视觉意象方面的能力差异可以解释人类在未来模拟中产生的内容多样性。我们的综合框架提供了一个新的试验台，可以在健康和疾病中查询未来思维的改变。
