Past Events Control Your Future Planning
Imagine a world where people are punished before committing a crime. Although it is strange, but it allows people to remember things before they happen. According to researchers posterior hippocampus is involved in future planning. Now scientists are discovering that human memory does indeed work forward. Studies show that the your past performances are more important in envisioning your future. The severely depressed patients have difficulty visualizing positive future events.
Researchers recognized that memory can construct, simulate and predict possible future events. These ongoing studies can provide new insights regarding the memory that relates to future-oriented thinking, planning, prediction and remembering intentions.
