| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 449 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover ; Seeing the Future ; Copyright ; Contents ; Contributors ; 1. The Past, the Present, and the Future of Future-. Oriented Mental Time Travel: Editors' Introduction ; PART I Varieties of Future- Oriented Cognition; 2. Toward a Taxonomy of Future Thinking ; PART II Relationships Between Future- Oriented Mental TimeTravel and Episodic Memory |
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3. Asymmetries in Subjective Time 4. Against Discontinuism: Mental Time Travel and Our Knowledge of Past and Future Events ; 5. Bidirectional Interactions Between Memory and Imagination ; PART III Subjective Temporality in Future- Oriented Mental Time Travel |
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6. Temporal Consciousness and Confabulation: When Mental Time Travel Takes the Wrong Track 7. The Role of Subjective Temporality in Future-. Oriented Mental Time Travel ; 8. Time Is Not of the Essence: Understanding the Neural Correlates of Mental Time Travel ; PART IV The Self in Future- Oriented Mental Time Travel |
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9. Future Mental Time Travel and the Me-. Self 10. The Role of Personal Goals in Future-. Oriented Mental Time Travel ; PART V Functional Perspectives; 11. Temporal Perspectives In Imagination: On the Nature and Value of Imagining the Future |
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12. Making Decisions about the Future: Regret and the Cognitive Function of Episodic Memory 13. The Mechanisms and Benefits of a Future-. Oriented Brain ; PART VI Evolutionary and Comparative Perspectives; 14. Evolutionary Perspectives on Prospective Cognition |
| Summary |
This title contains 20 chapters on theoretical issues in research on future-oriented mental time travel. Themes covered include varieties of future-oriented cognition; relationships between future-oriented mental time travel and episodic memory; subjective temporality in future-oriented mental time travel; the self in future-oriented mental time travel; functional perspectives; evolutionary and comparative perspectives; developmental perspectives; and clinical perspectives. Chapters are by researchers based in both empirical and theoretical disciplines |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 18, 2016) |
| Subject |
Space and time.
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Time travel.
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Episodic memory.
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Memory (Philosophy)
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology.
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SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
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Episodic memory
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Memory (Philosophy)
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Space and time
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Time travel
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Michaelian, Kourken, editor
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Klein, Stanley B., editor
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Szpunar, Karl K., editor
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| LC no. |
2015046731 |
| ISBN |
9780190241544 |
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0190241543 |
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9780190241551 |
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0190241551 |
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0190241535 |
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9780190241537 |
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