How does our brain distinguish between urgent and less urgent goals? Researchers explored how our brain remembers and adjusts the goals we set ourselves on a daily basis. Their study reveals differences in the way we process immediate and distant goals, at both behavioral and cerebral levels.
These discoveries, described in the journal Nature Communications, could have significant implications for understanding psychiatric disorders, particularly depression, which can hamper the formulation of clear goals.
Researchers from the UNIGE and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mont Sinai Hospital in New York have studied how the brain memorises and updates the goals to be achieved. More specifically, how the brain sorts out which goals require immediate attention and which do not. Their study focused on a particular region of the brain, the hippocampus, because of its established role in episodic memory.
''These results are particularly interesting because previous studies have shown that when we call on our episodic memory or our spatial memory, the anterior region of the hippocampus is involved in retrieving general information, while the posterior part deals with details.
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