Highlights•Research on episodic future thinking has increased dramatically during the past
decade.•Cognitive studies have begun to separate the contributions of episodic retrieval …

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 …

According to the constructive episodic simulation hypothesis (Schacter & Addis, 2007), both
remembered past and imagined future events rely heavily on episodic memory. An …

In recent years, evidence has accumulated to suggest the hippocampus plays a role beyond
memory. A strong hippocampal response to scenes has been noted, and patients with …

Converging evidence points to a neural network that supports a range of abilities including
remembering the past, thinking about the future, and introspecting about oneself and others …

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 …

There is increasing interest in uncovering the cognitive and neural bases of episodic future
thinking (EFT), the ability to imagine events relevant to one's own future. Recent functional …

Theoretical reflections and analytical observations on memory and prediction, linking these
concepts to the role of the cerebellum in higher cognition. What is memory? What is memory …

Philosophers and psychologists commonly distinguish at least two kinds of
memory:'factual'or'semantic memory versus memory in experiential'or 'episodic'form.'Factual …

New episodic memories are retained better if learning is followed by a few minutes of
wakeful rest than by the encoding of novel external information. Novel encoding is said to …