Architecture of Counterfactual Thought in the Prefrontal Cortex

Aron K. Barbey; Frank Krueger; Jordan Grafman

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195395518.003.0018

Architecture of Counterfactual Thought in the Prefrontal Cortex

Aron K. Barbey^*, Frank Krueger, Jordan Grafman

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This chapter develops an integrative cognitive neuroscience framework for understanding counterfactual reasoning on the basis of structured event complexes (SECs) in the human prefrontal cortex (PFC). The reviewed evidence in support of the SEC framework confirms the importance and uniqueness of the human PFC for representing knowledge in the form of cognitive events and action sequences. It is argued that SECs are the key to understanding the human ability to represent mental models of events, which guide the selection of goal-directed action sequences and the online updating of behavior based on past outcomes or anticipated future events.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Predictions in the Brain
Subtitle of host publication	Using Our Past to Generate a Future
Publisher	Oxford University Press
ISBN (Electronic)	9780199897230
ISBN (Print)	9780195395518
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195395518.003.0018
State	Published - Sep 22 2011

Keywords

Counterfactual reasoning
Integrative cognitive neuroscience framework
Prefrontal cortex
Structure event complexes

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General Psychology

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