The development of mental scenario building and episodic foresight

T Suddendorf, J Redshaw - Annals of the New York Academy of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Episodic foresight is the future‐directed counterpart of episodic memory. It is a sophisticated,
potentially uniquely human capacity, with tremendous adaptive consequences. Here we …

The development of episodic foresight: Emerging concepts and methods

JA Hudson, EMY Mayhew, J Prabhakar - Advances in child development …, 2011 - Elsevier
Episodic foresight is here defined as the ability to project oneself into the future and mentally
simulate situations and outcomes. Tasks used to study the development of episodic foresight …

Thinking in and about time: A dual systems perspective on temporal cognition

C Hoerl, T McCormack - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2019 - cambridge.org
We outline a dual systems approach to temporal cognition, which distinguishes between two
cognitive systems for dealing with how things unfold over time–a temporal updating system …

Today is tomorrow's yesterday: Children's acquisition of deictic time words

KA Tillman, T Marghetis, D Barner, M Srinivasan - Cognitive psychology, 2017 - Elsevier
Deictic time words like “yesterday” and “tomorrow” pose a challenge to children not only
because they are abstract, and label periods in time, but also because their denotations vary …

Learning the language of time: Children's acquisition of duration words

KA Tillman, D Barner - Cognitive psychology, 2015 - Elsevier
Children use time words like minute and hour early in development, but take years to
acquire their precise meanings. Here we investigate whether children assign meaning to …

Foresight beyond the very next event: Four-year-olds can link past and deferred future episodes

J Redshaw, T Suddendorf - Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Previous experiments have demonstrated that by 4 years of age children can use
information from a past episode to solve a problem for the very next future episode …

Development of episodic prospection: Factors underlying improvements in middle and late childhood

C Coughlin, RW Robins, S Ghetti - Child Development, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Episodic prospection is the mental simulation of a personal future event in rich contextual
detail. This study examined age‐related differences in episodic prospection in 5‐to 11‐year …

Atypical tactile perception in early childhood autism

S Espenhahn, KJ Godfrey, S Kaur, C McMorris… - Journal of Autism and …, 2023 - Springer
We assessed different aspects of tactile perception in young children (3–6 years) with
autism. Autistic and neurotypical children completed vibrotactile tasks assessing reaction …

Slow mapping: Color word learning as a gradual inductive process

K Wagner, K Dobkins, D Barner - Cognition, 2013 - Elsevier
Most current accounts of color word acquisition propose that the delay between children's
first production of color words and adult-like understanding is due to problems abstracting …

Connecting the dots between past and future: Constraints in episodic future thinking in early childhood

J Prabhakar, S Ghetti - Child development, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Preschoolers have limited capacity to use past experiences to prepare for the future. Two
experiments sought to further understand these limitations. Experiment 1 (N= 42) showed …