The ability to decouple from the present environment and explore other times is a central
feature of the human mind. Research in cognitive psychology and neuroscience has shown …

Episodic memory contrasted both with nondeclarative memory, devoted in part to skills and
habits, and, within the category of declarative memory, with semantic memory, devoted to …

Mental time travel (MTT) is defined as projecting the self into the past and the future. Despite
growing evidence of the similarities of remembering past and imagining future events …

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Imagination will remain a mystery—we will not be able to explain imagination—until we can
break it into simpler parts that are more easily understood. Explaining Imagination is a …

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 …

It is natural to think of remembering in terms of causation: I can recall a recent dinner with a
friend because I experienced that dinner. Some fifty years ago, Martin and Deutscher (1966) …

Mental time travel research has given rise to an ongoing debate between causal and
simulation theories of memory, which has, in turn, triggered a debate between continuist and …

On the simulation theory of memory, to remember is to imagine an event from the personal
past. McCarroll has recently argued that, because it implies not only that a genuine memory …

The more interest philosophers take in memory, the less agreement there is that memory
exists—or more precisely, that remembering is a distinct psychological kind or mental state …