Despite a strong intuitive and theoretical tradition linking autobiographical memory and
sense of self, there are few coherent, testable models that exemplify how these constructs …

Objectives Prospection, or future thinking, refers to the ability to mentally simulate plausible
events at a future point in time and draws heavily upon the capacity to retrieve …

Although Personal Informatics stresses the importance of “self”-awareness and “self”-
knowledge in collecting personal data, a description of the “self,” to which all these …

We investigated the episodic/semantic distinction in remembering the past and imagining
the future and explored cognitive mechanisms predicting events' specificity throughout the …

The current overview provides an interdisciplinary synthesis of autobiographical and
collective memory studies, focusing on history and cognitive psychology, to help other …

While the role of autobiographical memory in self-representation is well established, the
identity function of future thinking has received much less attention. Yet, most people …

Autobiographical periods refer to subjectively defined life periods with perceived beginnings
and endings, including information about the people, places, activities, and objects …

Numerous studies on episodic future thinking have demonstrated that individuals perceive
their future as more positive and idyllic than their past. It has been suggested that this …

Much of human life revolves around anticipating and planning for the future. It has become
increasingly clear that this capacity for prospective cognition is a core adaptive function of …

Prospection, or thinking about the future, is currently a topic of significant interdisciplinary
research interest. Episodic foresight is considered a complex form of prospection that …