" When did I learn and when shall I act?": The developmental relationship between episodic future thinking and memory

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 397-411

  Naito, Mika ^a   Suzuki, Toshiko ^a  

^a JOETSU UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Episodic future thinking; Episodic memory; Future oriented action timing; Mental time travel; Source memory; Temporal perspective

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECALL; RECOGNITION; THINKING;

CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); THINKING; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 79955467311     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2011.03.005     Document Type: Article

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