Journeying to the past: time travel and mental time travel, how far apart? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Spatial models dominated memory research throughout much of the twentieth century, but in recent decades, the concept of memory as a form of mental time travel (MTT) to the past has gained prominence.
Marina Trakas
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Wandering Tales: Evolutionary origins of mental time travel and language [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 A central component of mind wandering is mental time travel, the calling to mind of remembered past events and of imagined future ones. Mental time travel may also be critical to the evolution of language, which enables us to communicate about the ...
Michael Charles Corballis
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A spoon full of studies helps the comparison go down: A comparative analysis of Tulving’s spoon test [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Mental time travel refers to the ability to cast one’s mind back in time to re-experience a past event and forward in time to pre-experience events that may occur in the future.
Damian eScarf +2 more
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Mental time travel and the philosophy of memory [PDF]
Filosofia Unisinos, 2018 The idea that episodic memory is a form of mental time travel has played an important role in the development of memory research in the last couple of decades.
André Sant'Anna
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Mental Time Travel and Time Reference Difficulties in Alzheimer’s Disease: Are They Related? A Systematic Review [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Mental time travel and language enable us to go back and forth in time and to organize and express our personal experiences through time reference. People with Alzheimer’s disease have both mental time travel and time reference impairments, which can ...
Evodie Schaffner +4 more
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A Neuroeconomic Theory of Mental Time Travel [PDF]
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2018 We propose a theoretical model that places attention at the center of mental time travel (MTT) ability. This theory predicts that attention promotes a memory-based process that encodes memories of unexpected events, facilitates accurate recollection of ...
Isabelle Brocas +3 more
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The Mediating Role of Meaning-Making in the Relationship Between Mental Time Travel and Positive Emotions in Stress-Related Blogs: Big Data Text Analysis Research [PDF]
Journal of Medical Internet ResearchBackgroundGiven the ubiquity of stress, a key focus of stress research is exploring how to better coexist with stress. ObjectiveThis study conducted text analysis on stress-related Weibo posts using a web crawler to ...
Yidi Chen +4 more
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Children’s Mental Time Travel during Mind Wandering [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 The prospective bias is a salient feature of mind wandering in healthy adults, yet little is known about the temporal focus of children’s mind wandering. In the present study, (I) we developed the Temporal Focus of Mind Wandering Questionnaire for school-
Qun eYe +3 more
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Age-Related Effects on Future Mental Time Travel [PDF]
Neural Plasticity, 2016 Mental time travel (MTT), the ability to travel mentally back and forward in time in order to reexperience past events and preexperience future events, is crucial in human cognition. As we move along life, MTT may be changed accordingly.
Filomena Anelli +3 more
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Language, Memory, and Mental Time Travel: An Evolutionary Perspective [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2019 Language could not exist without memory, in all its forms: working memory for sequential production and understanding, implicit memory for grammatical rules, semantic memory for knowledge, and episodic memory for communicating personal experience ...
Michael C. Corballis
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