Involuntary (spontaneous) mental time travel into the past and future

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1093-1104

  Berntsen, Dorthe ^a   Jacobsen, Anne Stærk ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Autobiographical memory; Autonoetic awareness; Cultural life script; Episodic future thinking; Involuntary memories; Mental time travel

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DREAMING; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FUTUROLOGY; HUMAN; INVOLUNTARY MENTAL TIME TRAVEL; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN;

ADULT; AFFECT; AGING; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CUES; CULTURE; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; INDIVIDUALITY; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MEMORY; THINKING; TIME; VOLITION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55749094474     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2008.03.001     Document Type: Article

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