Brain Scans Of The Future Psychologists Use fMRI To Understand Ties Between Memories And The Imagination

**Clara** Dim Mai 22, 2011 2:14 pm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2007/0710-brain_scans_of_the_future.htm

July 1, 2007 — Psychologists have found that thought patterns used to recall the past and imagine the future are strikingly similar. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging to show the brain at work, they have observed the same regions activated in a similar pattern whenever a person remembers an event from the past or imagines himself in a future situation. This challenges long-standing beliefs that thoughts about the future develop exclusively in the frontal lobe.