Semantic memory as the root of imagination (CROSBI ID 218039)
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Abraham, Anna ; Bubić, Andreja
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Semantic memory as the root of imagination
Cognitive and neuroscientific research on mental operations of imagination have evoked heightened interest in the past decade particularly with reference to investigations of mental time travel which cover phenomena such as thinking about one’s personal past (episodic and autobiographical memory) and thinking about one’s personal future (episodic future thinking). One of the most consistent findings is that the same network of brain regions is recruited during mental time travel as well as during mental state reasoning, self- referential thinking, and moral reasoning. Moreover, this brain network closely corresponds to the default mode network of the brain, which is spontaneous engaged during stimulus-independent and task-unrelated thought. Although rarely discussed in the same context, similar brain regions are also known to be involved during divergent thinking as well as during semantic future thinking. This is particularly noteworthy as these functions, unlike the aforementioned ones, are not directly or closely allied to episodic memory, self-related processing or social cognition. In this Opinion Article, we explore the view that processes of imagination - the "where" of spatial cognition, the "what-when-where" of episodic prospection, and the "what-if" of semantic counterfactual thinking - emerge from a foundation provided by the “what” of semantic memory operations.
imagination; creativity; prospection; neurocognition; cognitive neuroscience; mental time travel; episodic memory; semantic memory; Theory of Mind; moral reasoning; semantic cognition
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