The evolution of foresight: What is mental time travel, and is it unique to humans

By Endel Tulving, A. Kim. 2007

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Collective future thought: Concept, function, and implications for collective memory studies (2016, unknown): “Recent work in cognitive neuroscience has suggested that these dissociable memory systems may support dissociable forms of future thinking (Suddendorf and Corballis, 2007; for relevant discussion regarding the role of memory in giving rise to future thinking, see Schacter and Addis, 2007).”
Functional neuroimaging of autobiographical memory. (2007, background): “The ability to self-project to the personal past is closely related to the ability to understand another person’s perspective (Buckner and Carroll, 2007; Mitchell, 2009; Suddendorf and Corballis, 2007), Functional neuroimaging of autobiographical memory 123”
Understanding the Processes that Regulate Positive Emotional Experience: Unsolved Problems and Future Directions for Theory and Research on Savoring (2011, background): “For example, Takahashi et al. (2008) instructed 16 college students to imagine experiencing events involving either joy (e.”
Measuring Individual Differences in Emotion Regulation: The Emotion Regulation Profile-Revised (ERP-R) (2011, background): “Positive Mental Time Travel refers to engaging in vivid positive reminiscence or anticipation of positive events (see e.g., Quoidbach, Hansenne, & Mottet, 2008; Suddendorf & Corballis, 2007).”
Back to the future: the effect of daily practice of mental time travel into the future on happiness and anxiety (2009, background): “Recently, a fast-growing number of studies have addressed the ability to envision the future under the term mental time travel (MTT; eg, D’Argembeau & van der Linden, 2006; Quoidbach, Hansenne, & Mottet, 2008 ; Suddendorf & Corballis, 2007 ; Tulving, 2002 ).”
Remembering the past to imagine the future: the prospective brain (2007, unknown): “Perhaps as a result of this claim, much research has focused on whether non-human animals are capable of mental time travel (for reviews, see Refs 10–12 ), using ingenious demonstrations to question the claim for human uniqueness.”