Future Perfect: Imagination and Ideology

Memory, Imagination, and Predicting the Future

On the face of it, memory, imagination, and prediction seem to be distinct cognitive functions. However, metacognitive, cognitive, neuropsychological, and neuroimaging evidence is emerging that they are not, suggesting intimate links in their underlying processes. Here, we explore these empirical findings and the evolving theoretical frameworks that seek to explain how a common neural system su...

Pharmacy's future: Transformation, diffusion, and imagination.

Future perfect.

Since our June issue, in celebration of the tenth anniversary of Nature Chemical Biology, we have published a series of articles highlighting the scientific achievements of chemical biology and featuring the viewpoints of chemical biologists on their evolving field (Nat. Chem. Biol. 11, 363, 2015). In this last issue of our anniversary volume, we present a collection of articles focused on “Fro...

ideology and dubbing: domestication of dialects

چکیده ندارد.

Role of the hippocampus in imagination and future thinking.

Squire et al. (1) recently asserted that patients with bilateral hippocampal damage can imagine future experiences. This contradicts a number of previous reports where amnesia and bilateral hippocampal lesions have been found to cause significant impairment in imagining fictitious and future scenarios (2–4). Based on their findings, Squire et al. (1) concluded that the capacity for imagining th...