Topic: visuoperceptual cortex

Most of us can easily conjure up fictitious scenarios in front of our mind’s eye with great clarity. Neurally, these types of mental events rely on a neural network involving the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), hippocampus and visuoperceptual cortex. Whereas these brain regions have been associated with mental event construction earlier, the precise contributions of each node are hotly debated. For example, the vmPFC is usually associated with abstract, schema-like mental events, however we proposed earlier that the vmPFC may initiate and elaborate vivid, detail-rich mental events. The