PMID- 19787547
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20100811
LR  - 20131121
IS  - 1747-0927 (Electronic)
IS  - 1747-0919 (Linking)
VI  - 5
IP  - 2
DP  - 2010
TI  - Modulation of medial prefrontal and inferior parietal cortices when thinking 
      about past, present, and future selves.
PG  - 187-200
LID - 10.1080/17470910903233562 [doi]
AB  - Recent functional neuroimaging studies have shown that reflecting on 
      representations of the present self versus temporally distant selves is 
      associated with higher activity in the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC). In the 
      current fMRI study, we investigated whether this effect of temporal perspective 
      is symmetrical between the past and future. The main results revealed that the 
      MPFC showed higher activity when reflecting on the present self than when 
      reflecting on past and future selves, with no difference between past and future 
      selves. Temporal perspective also modulated activity in the right inferior 
      parietal cortex but in the opposite direction, activity in this brain region 
      being higher when reflecting on past and future selves relative to the present 
      self (with again no difference between past and future selves). These findings 
      show that differences in brain activity when thinking about current versus 
      temporally distant selves are symmetrical between the past and the future. It is 
      suggested that by processing degrees of self-relatedness, the MPFC might sustain 
      the process of identifying oneself with current representations of the self, 
      whereas the right inferior parietal cortex might be involved in distinguishing 
      the present self from temporally distant selves.
FAU - D'Argembeau, Arnaud
AU  - D'Argembeau A
AD  - Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Liege, Liege, 
      Belgium. a.dargembeau@ulg.ac.be
FAU - Stawarczyk, David
AU  - Stawarczyk D
FAU - Majerus, Steve
AU  - Majerus S
FAU - Collette, Fabienne
AU  - Collette F
FAU - Van der Linden, Martial
AU  - Van der Linden M
FAU - Salmon, Eric
AU  - Salmon E
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20090921
PL  - England
TA  - Soc Neurosci
JT  - Social neuroscience
JID - 101279009
RN  - S88TT14065 (Oxygen)
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Analysis of Variance
MH  - Brain Mapping
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Image Processing, Computer-Assisted/methods
MH  - Imagination/*physiology
MH  - Judgment/physiology
MH  - Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods
MH  - Male
MH  - Mental Recall/*physiology
MH  - Neuropsychological Tests
MH  - Oxygen/blood
MH  - Parietal Lobe/blood supply/*physiology
MH  - Prefrontal Cortex/blood supply/*physiology
MH  - Reaction Time/physiology
MH  - *Self Concept
MH  - Thinking/*physiology
MH  - Young Adult
EDAT- 2009/09/30 06:00
MHDA- 2010/08/12 06:00
CRDT- 2009/09/30 06:00
PHST- 2009/09/30 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2009/09/30 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2010/08/12 06:00 [medline]
AID - 915135845 [pii]
AID - 10.1080/17470910903233562 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Soc Neurosci. 2010;5(2):187-200. doi: 10.1080/17470910903233562. Epub 2009 Sep 
      21.