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quality > cognitive quality > phenomenological characteristic of memory > mental time travel

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mental time travel  

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  • A term coined "to refer to the faculty that allows humans to mentally project themselves backwards in time to re-live, or forwards to pre-live, events" (Suddendorf et Corballis, 2007, p. 299).

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  • • Addis, D. R. (2020). Mental time travel? A neurocognitive model of event simulation. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 11(2), 233–259. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-020-00470-0

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Addis, D. R., Wong, A. T., & Schacter, D. L. (2007). Remembering the past and imagining the future: Common and distinct neural substrates during event construction and elaboration. Neuropsychologia, 45(7), 1363–1377. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.10.016

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  • • Busby, J., & Suddendorf, T. (2005). Recalling yesterday and predicting tomorrow. Cognitive Development, 20(3), 362–372. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2005.05.002

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  • • Corballis, M. C. (2019). Mental time travel, language, and evolution. Neuropsychologia, 134, 107202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107202

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  • • Ernst, A. (2019). Le voyage mental dans le temps à la lumière des neurosciences cognitives et de la neuropsychologie clinique. Psychiatrie, Sciences humaines, Neurosciences, 17(3), 41–55. https://www.cairn.info/revue-psn-2019-3-page-41.htm

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  • • Michaelian, K. (2016). Mental time travel: Episodic memory and our knowledge of the personal past. The MIT Press.

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  • • Michaelian, K., Klein, S. B., & Szpunar, K. K. (2016). Seeing the future : Theoretical perspectives on future-oriented mental time travel. Oxford University Press.

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  • • Perrin, D., & Michaelian, K. (2017). Memory as mental time travel. In S. Bernecker & K. Michaelian (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of philosophy of memory (pp. 228–239). Routledge.

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  • • Sant’Anna, A. (2018). Mental time travel and the philosophy of memory. Filosofia Unisinos, 19(1), 52–62. https://doi.org/10.4013/fsu.2018.191.06

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  • • Suddendorf, T., & Corballis, M. C. (1997). Mental time travel and the evolution of the human mind. Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs, 123(2), 133–167.

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  • • Suddendorf, T., & Corballis, M. C. (2007). The evolution of foresight: What is mental time travel, and is it unique to humans? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30(3), 299–313. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X07001975

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  • • Wang, Y., Ye, J., Lui, S. S. Y., & Chan, R. C. K. (2023). Mental time travel in psychiatric disorders. PsyCh Journal, 12(4), 543-546. https://doi.org/10.1002/pchj.634

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  • • Wheeler, M. A., Stuss, D. T., & Tulving, E. (1997). Toward a theory of episodic memory: the frontal lobes and autonoetic consciousness. Psychological Bulletin, 121(3), 331–354. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.121.3.331

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Creator

  • Frank Arnould

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Dataset citation(s)

  • • Hofmann, W., Summerville, A., & Baumeister, R. (2020, March 14). Dataset and Materials for “Everyday Thoughts in Time: Experience Sampling Studies of Mental Time Travel.” https://osf.io/9uytp/
  • • Suo, T., & Wang, Q. (2021, February 23). Data for Culture and Visual Perspective in Mental Time Travel: The Relations to Psychological Well-being. doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/EPJUF

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