The Impact of Self-processing on Mental Time Travel
How Self-processing Affects Mental Time Travel: a Neuropsychological Study
Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri SpA
66 participants
Dec 1, 2024
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
Mental time travel (MTT) refers to the ability to project oneself backward into the past or forward into the future to envision past and future events. This study examines the role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) in orienting toward past and future events during MTT.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria2
- the absence of general cognitive impairment, assessed by neuropsychological testing
- the presence of a focal brain lesion will be adopted as an inclusion criterion for patients.
Exclusion Criteria2
- psychiatric disorders
- multiple brain lesions
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Interventions
A psychophysical task (D'Angelo et al., 2023) will be adopted. In this task, a projection in time will be "induced" by faces of different ages. Face stimuli will be presented with a short sentence describing a particular life event, commonly occurring around 60. Participants will perform a two-alternative forced-choice task under two experimental conditions. In the "past projection" condition, they will indicate whether it is "likely" or "unlikely" that the person of the face shown could have experienced the indicated event 10 years earlier. In the "future projection," they will indicate whether it is "likely" or "unlikely" that the person depicted will experience the indicated event in 10 years.
In this task participants will estimate the age of the faces adopted as stimuli.
In this task participants will be instructed to associated each event with the age at which they believe it typically occurred.
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NCT06823193