Simultaneous Reality Filtering and Encoding of Thoughts: The Substrate for Distinguishing between Memories of Real Events and Imaginations?

Any thought, whether it refers to the present moment or reflects an imagination, is again encoded as a new memory trace. Orbitofrontal reality filtering (ORFi) denotes an on-line mechanism which verifies whether upcoming thoughts relate to ongoing reality or not. Its failure induces reality confusio...

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Main Authors: Raphaël Thézé, Aurélie L. Manuel, Louis Nahum, Adrian G. Guggisberg, Armin Schnider
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00216/full