Being another person to be future-minded: common neural substrates of perspective-taking, prospective memory, and intertemporal choice

•Perspective simulation for intertemporal choice –future envisioning leading to a more far-sighted decision making (Peters & Büchel, 2010) –Preference for immediate rewards for current-selves compared to future-selves (Ersner-Hershfield et al., 2009) –Paralleling behavior pattern and neural activation between judging for future-selves and taking others’ perspectives (Spreng et al., 2009; Pronin et al., 2008) •Emotional Components of Intertemporal Choice: Subjective reward perception & Impulsivity attenuation Aim: - To investigate whether perspective-taking can modulate delayed economic decision-making pattern - To explore whether training of perspective-taking of others’ emotional states can have regulatory effect