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 …

Episodic foresight is the future‐directed counterpart of episodic memory. It is a sophisticated,
potentially uniquely human capacity, with tremendous adaptive consequences. Here we …

Although tourism memory is widely regarded as a valuable commodity, scant research
examines its influence on creativity, a crucial factor for individual and organizational …

Abstract Thinking about the future has become a focus of study in both adult and childhood
cognition. Of special interest is the capacity to mentally pre‐experience future events that …

The capacity to mentally project the self into the future, or what has been termed “episodic
foresight”(EpF), is becoming a popular topic of study in developmental psychology. Several …

This study examined future‐oriented behavior in children (3–6 years; N= 193) from three
diverse societies—one industrialized Western city and two small, geographically isolated …

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 …

A picture–sentence matching task was used to investigate children's understanding of
yesterday and tomorrow. In Experiment 1, 3-to 5-year-olds viewed two pictures of an object …

Abstract We explored 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds' capacity to draw on a past experience that
entailed the lack of a particular resource (in this case, toys) in one room, but not in another …

A total of 48 preschoolers (ages 3, 4, and 5) received four tasks modelled after prior work
designed to assess the development of “episodic foresight”. For each task, children …