[The shifting territories of mental travel].

IF 0.6 4区医学 Q4 MEDICINE, RESEARCH & EXPERIMENTAL

M S-medecine Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-21 DOI:10.1051/medsci/2025022

Manik Bhattacharjee, Thomas Christen, Chantal Delon-Martin, Michel Dojat, Etienne Hugues, Yves Goldberg, Christian Graff, Anne Laurençon, Lydia Oujamaa, Karin Pernet-Gallay, Laurent Vercueil

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Abstract

How does experience outside the present moment become part of living matter? Mental travel, which is both creative and low-carbon, is an experience that anyone can enjoy without needing to abstract from immediacy and project themselves beyond reality. The possibility of such a virtual journey has long fascinated philosophers and then scientists. What does mental travel actually involve? Which neural circuits are engaged? What are the conditions that take us on a hallucinatory journey, deprive us of it, or enable us to control it? What are the adaptive advantages of this imaginary journey? Is it present in other living beings and in our "intelligent" machines?

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M S-medecine Sciences 医学-医学：研究与实验

CiteScore

0.80

自引率

14.30%

发文量

182

审稿时长

4-8 weeks

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