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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neuropsychologia. 2015 May 8;73:116–126. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.05.002

Table 3.

Example narratives for a healthy comparison, mPFC, and hippocampal participant

Comparison mPFC Hippocampus
Word Count 135 204 163
Self-Prospection 0.82 0.82 0.23
Self-Reference 0.67 0.11 0.57
Narrative Okay I just came home from school and I was wearing a a little girl dress we didn't wear pants to school back then so I'm standing at the back door calling out and I can hear mom out in the garden and she answers that she's out there picking vegetables for for supper well there is a big long row of flowers called flocks back there that smelled really good they were light purple and there was an old shed back there where we kept the lawnmower and gardening stuff and it's just big and long row of pine trees that were kind of a wind break in the north side of the house and a huge garden I'm feeling relief when she answered. oh I suppose there were some farm smells the animals. We were all we were all home from school it was Saturday and the sheriff sheriff and sheriff's deputy comes in the yard of course all the kids were looking through windows see what what's the sheriff in the yard for and he's out talking to dad so on then they get to dog and look at to dog looking under his chin and his around him and he was muddy and dirty and maybe some blood so it's a matter then of well what what's the deal my neighbor a mile or so across across the field the dog do that last night chasing hogs and killing a couple of hogs and they are out looking for the dogs and this dog was here that you have solid proof of who the dogs were whose dogs they were or maybe didn't see they probably couldn't describe him it's just there are more than one dog doing it out and so the deputy is checking our dog and he thinks he has enough evidence with the mud and so on on that he was involved so he was giv- he gave a choice we could dispose him ourselves or he could take him along. I remember it being a big open space where you went in after you were done skiing and lots and lots of voices everybody was talking within the couple people that they came with and they were all talking about their skiing events for the day and feeling very very cold even though I was inside I still felt cold it took awhile to warm up going by the fire I remember going next to the fire after I had changed into my jeans into normal clothes and out of ski clothes and sitting by the fire to warm up talking about what we were going to eat supper that night if we were going to try and eat there at the ski lodge or if we were going to go out it was pretty loud in there in the lodge with people getting done skiing and everybody was in their own groups and everybody talking all at once and so that made it seem very loud