Mental imagery research has weathered both disbelief of the phenomenon and inherent
methodological limitations. Here we review recent behavioral, brain imaging, and clinical …

Prospection—the ability to represent what might happen in the future—is a broad concept
that has been used to characterize a wide variety of future-oriented cognitions, including …

During the past few years, there has been a dramatic increase in research examining the
role of memory in imagination and future thinking. This work has revealed striking similarities …

Abstract Thinking about what might have been—counterfactual thinking—is a common
feature of the mental landscape. Key questions about counterfactual thinking center on why …

Mental imagery is an experience like perception in the absence of a percept. It is a
ubiquitous feature of human cognition, yet it has been relatively neglected in the etiology …

Humans are capable of imagining future rewards and the contexts in which they may be
obtained. Functionally, intertemporal choices between smaller but immediate and larger but …

Objectives Prospection, the mental representation of possible futures, is usually adaptive.
When it goes awry, however, it disrupts emotion and motivation. A negative view of the future …

Over the past decade, episodic memory has been reconceptualised as future-oriented. In
2007, Schacter and I proposed the 'constructive episodic simulation hypothesis' to account …

In recent years, scientists have increasingly taken to investigate the predictive nature of
cognition. We argue that prediction relies on abstraction, and thus theories of predictive …

Previous research has demonstrated that an episodic specificity induction—brief training in
recollecting details of a recent experience—enhances performance on various subsequent …