Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Counterfactual Reasoning
Counterfactual reasoning is a hallmark of human thought, enabling the capacity to shift from perceiving the immediate environment to an alternative, imagined perspective. Mental representations of counterfactual possibilities (e.g., imagined past events or future outcomes not yet at hand) provide th...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015-07-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Human Neuroscience |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00420/full |