Biological roots of foresight and mental time travel

Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 97-125

  Toomela, Aaro ^a  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Anokhin's theory of functional systems; Cartesian epistemology; Foresight; Future orientation; Mental time travel; Structural systemic epistemology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951878863     PISSN: 19324502     EISSN: 19363567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12124-010-9120-0     Document Type: Article

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