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 …

Mental time travel (MTT) is defined as projecting the self into the past and the future. Despite
growing evidence of the similarities of remembering past and imagining future events …

Executive dysfunction can be present from the early stages of P arkinson's disease (PD). It is
characterized by deficits in internal control of attention, set shifting, planning, inhibitory …

Rationale Delay discounting, or the devaluation of delayed outcomes, appears to play an
etiological role in tobacco and other substance-use disorders. Objectives No human studies …

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 …

Two major questions about addictive behaviors need to be explained by any worthwhile
neurobiological theory. First, why do people seek drugs in the first place? Second, why do …

Research on future‐oriented mental time travel (FMTT) is highly active yet somewhat unruly.
I believe this is due, in large part, to the complexity of both the tasks used to test FMTT and …

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 …

In this article, we address an apparent paradox in the literature on mental time travel and
mind-wandering: How is it possible that future thinking is both constructive, yet often …