[PDF][PDF] Mental time travel and the evolution of the human mind

T Suddendorf, MC Corballis - Genetic Social and General …, 1997 - bonobosworld.org
Mental time travel comprises the mental reconstruction of personal events from the past (…
is with mental time travel in both directions, we begin by considering the ability to mentally

The comparative study of mental time travel

WA Roberts, MC Feeney - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2009 - cell.com
… People regularly travel through time mentally to remember and reconstruct past events and
… We suggest that a bi-cone structure best describes human mental time travel (MTT) abilities. …

Mental time travel and the shaping of the human mind

T Suddendorf, DR Addis… - … Transactions of the …, 2009 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… of mental time travel into the past and future, and consider what, if anything, might be uniquely
human about mental time travel. … and why mental time travel evolved in hominin evolution. …

Mental time travel in animals?

T Suddendorf, J Busby - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2003 - cell.com
… This has raised the possibility of mental time travel (MTT) in animals and sparked similar
research … Humans frequently engage in such mental time travel (MTT), reliving past events and …

Does metarepresentation make human mental time travel unique?

J Redshaw - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
… Yet, as long as they are not embedded within a specific temporal context, such representations
are best characterized as mental space travel rather than true mental time travel (see Box …

The evolution of foresight: What is mental time travel, and is it unique to humans?

T Suddendorf, MC Corballis - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2007 - cambridge.org
… We argue that mental time travel is the most flexible of … for mental time travel in nonhuman
animals, and suggest a framework that identifies subsidiary mechanisms of mental time travel

Mental time travel: continuities and discontinuities

T Suddendorf - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2013 - cell.com
mental time travel is uniquely human [7]. Here, I outline reasons why I think the evidence fails
to show that animals travel mentally in time … behavioural indicators of mental time travel [3, 4…

Evolutionary economics of mental time travel?

P Boyer - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2008 - cell.com
… What is the function of our capacity for ‘mental time travel’? Evolutionary considerations
suggest that vivid memory and imaginative foresight may be crucial cognitive devices for human …

Mental time travel

K Michaelian, S Sakuragi, J Openshaw… - … Palgrave Encyclopedia of …, 2024 - Springer
Episodic memory has often been viewed as being fundamentally of the past, as being dependent
on the transmission of content from the past, and, insofar as it preserves a certain kind …

Mental time travel in animals

LG Cheke, NS Clayton - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
mental time travel (MTT) hypothesis, the debate as to whether episodic cognition is unique
to humans remains unresolved. In this article, we review the evidence for mental time travel in …