The prefrontal cortex (PFC) plays a critical role in the generation and regulation of emotion.
However, we lack an integrative framework for understanding how different emotion-related …

During the past few years, there has been a dramatic increase in research examining the
role of memory in imagination and future thinking. This work has revealed striking similarities …

Prospection—the ability to represent what might happen in the future—is a broad concept
that has been used to characterize a wide variety of future-oriented cognitions, including …

It has been suggested that the simulation of hypothetical episodes and the recollection of
past episodes are supported by fundamentally the same set of brain regions. The present …

Successful behavior requires actively acquiring and representing information about the
environment and people, and manipulating and using those acquired representations …

The past decade has seen a transformation in research on the retrosplenial cortex (RSC).
This cortical area has emerged as a key member of a core network of brain regions that …

Thirty years of brain imaging research has converged to define the brain's default network—
a novel and only recently appreciated brain system that participates in internal modes of …

Recent evidence suggests that there are two possible systems for empathy: a basic
emotional contagion system and a more advanced cognitive perspective-taking system …

Mental imagery has been considered relevant to psychopathology due to its supposed
special relationship with emotion, although evidence for this assumption has been …

This meta-analysis explores the role of the cerebellum in social cognition. Recent meta-
analyses of neuroimaging studies since 2008 demonstrate that the cerebellum is only …