Brett Foster

There are two sort of interesting properties about this region, it appears to have a unique contribution to processes that relate to memory, which is that tasks that use autobiographical or self-referential information about ‘me’— past and future— activate this region, but for tasks where you’re doing something you might consider oppositional, not focused on yourself but on external environment, this network gets turned down actively.

It’s only with this recent turn of events that people have started to talk about this network, so there’s a host of additional things that are interesting to investigate.