Forming attitudes via neural activity supporting affective episodic simulations
People vividly simulate prospective events and experience the anticipated affect—processes supported by the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC). Here, the authors show that these mere simulations change real-life attitudes, via a value transfer between environmental representations in the vmPFC....
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2019-05-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09961-w |