Prospection: Experiencing the Future
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- 7 September 2007
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 317 (5843) , 1351-1354
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1144161
Abstract
All animals can predict the hedonic consequences of events they've experienced before. But humans can predict the hedonic consequences of events they've never experienced by simulating those events in their minds. Scientists are beginning to understand how the brain simulates future events, how it uses those simulations to predict an event's hedonic consequences, and why these predictions so often go awry.Keywords
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