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

There are logical and empirical grounds that link episodic memory and the ability to imagine
future events. In some sense, both episodic memory and episodic foresight may be regarded …

There exists an undeniable chasm between the capacities of humans and those of animals.
Our minds have spawned civilizations and technologies that have changed the face of the …

The Recursive Mind challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us
uniquely human. In this compelling book, Michael Corballis argues that what distinguishes …

Much of humans' success rests on foresight, the ability to predict what will happen or what is
needed in the future. Surprisingly little is known about how this faculty develops. In three …

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 …

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 …

The study of future thinking is gaining momentum across various domains of psychology.
Mentally projecting the self forward in time (ie, mental time travel) is argued to be uniquely …

A new model of the development of temporal concepts is described that assumes that there
are substantial changes in how children think about time in the early years. It is argued that …

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 …