The last decade has seen dramatic technological and conceptual changes in research on
episodic memory and the brain. New technologies, and increased use of more naturalistic …

Prospection, or thinking about the future, is currently a topic of significant interdisciplinary
research interest. Episodic foresight is considered a complex form of prospection that …

This study analyzed the relation between mental time travel (MTT) and the ability to produce
a storytelling focusing on global coherence, which is one of the most notable characteristics …

Although subtle discourse declines in people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) have
been reported, heterogeneous measures and tasks among the MCI discourse studies have …

The aim of this paper is twofold: to propose that conversation is the distinctive feature of
Homo sapiens' communication; and to show that the emergence of modern language is tied …

This paper relies on the idea that human language evolved to modify/change the beliefs and
attitudes of other people, in order to make them act in a certain way. Such an idea is in line …

Default network regions appear to integrate information over time windows of 30​ s or more
during narrative listening. Does this long-timescale capability require the hippocampus …

Objective: Functional neuroimaging and lesion studies show that the ventromedial prefrontal
cortex (vmPFC) is implicated in episodic future thinking (EFT), yet its role remains unclear. In …

In this paper, I assume that the study of the origin of language is strictly connected to the
analysis of the traits that distinguish human language from animal communication. Usually …

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