Making decisions with the future in mind: Developmental and comparative identification of mental time travel

By Thomas Suddendorf, Janie Busby. 2005

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Future Thinking in Young Children (2008, background): “Arguably, the children in Suddendorf and Busby’s (2005) ‘‘two rooms’’ study did not need to bridge as wide an empathy gap because imagining playing with the puzzle (or avoiding boredom) was not directly conflicting with their current state, nor was their current state one as salient as thirst or hun”
Anticipatory and consummatory components of the experience of pleasure: A scale development study (2006, positive): “This further parsing of pleasure into its temporal components, with particular focus on anticipatory pleasure, is very much in line with what cognitive psychologists term " mental time travel " (e.g., D'Argembeau & Van der Linden, 2004; Suddendorf & Busby, 2005; Tulving , 2002).”
Remembering the past to imagine the future: the prospective brain (2007, neutral): “However, similar issues regarding the ability of young children to communicate their mental contents have arisen 9,16,17 .”
The Future of Memory: Remembering, Imagining, and the Brain (2012, background): “, 1996) as well as in behavioral studies of healthy individuals (e.g., D’Argembeau and Van der Linden, 2004, 2006; Spreng and Levine, 2006; Suddendorf and Busby, 2005), and were explored in experiments that investigated whether non-human animals can project into the past or future (e.”
The cognitive neuroscience of constructive memory: remembering the past and imagining the future (2007, background): “Furthermore, a number of investigators have recognized that information about past experiences is useful only to the extent that it allows us to anticipate what may happen in the future (e.g. Atance & O’Neill 2001, 2005; Suddendorf & Busby 2003, 2005; Hancock 2005; Buckner & Carroll 2007).”
Planning in young children: A review and synthesis (2011, background): “…Corballis (2007) argue that the hallmark of what they term mental time travel to the future is behavior that (i) is aimed at solving a problem that is not currently manifest and (ii) is guided by anticipating a future rather than a present need (see also Suddendorf & Busby, 2005; Tulving, 2005).”
Going AWOL in the Brain: Mind Wandering Reduces Cortical Analysis of External Events (2008, background): “Among other things, this state allows the individual to entertain goals and thoughts which extend well beyond their immediate circumstances—a phenomenon termed mental time travel (e.g., Buckner & Vincent, 2007; Addis, Wong, & Schacter, 2007; Mason et al., 2007; Suddendorf & Busby, 2005).”
Prospection and the Present Moment: The Role of Episodic Foresight in Intertemporal Choices between Immediate and Delayed Rewards (2016, background): “The capacity to imagine various possible future contingencies has critical implications for adaptive decision-making (Suddendorf & Busby, 2005).”