The ability to imagine and simulate events that may happen in the future has been studied in
several related but independent research areas (eg, episodic future thinking, mind …

Many fundamental choices in life are intertemporal: they involve trade-offs between sooner
and later outcomes. In recent years there has been a surge of interest into how people make …

In recent years, the scientific study of meditation and psychedelic drugs has seen
remarkable developments. The increased focus on meditation in cognitive neuroscience has …

Futures research studies and builds images of possible, probable and preferable futures
and paths to such futures. Underlying this effort is human consciousness of futures that is …

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Questions concerning the relation between memory and imagination have occupied a
prominent place in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience during the past several …

The capacity to imagine and prepare for alternative future possibilities is central to human
cognition. Recent research suggests that between age 2 and 4 children gradually begin to …

This article develops a taxonomy of memory errors in terms of three conditions: the accuracy
of the memory representation, the reliability of the memory process, and the internality (with …

Memory and the self have long been considered intertwined, leading to the assumption that
without memory, there can be no self. This line of reasoning has led to the misconception …

Highlights•Prospection, or thinking about the future, has strong adaptive significance.•Many
animal species demonstrate a capacity for basic prospection of immediate …