The Time Machine in Our Mind

Cognitive Science

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 385-420

  Stocker, Kurt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Concept structuring; Mental imagery; Mental time travel; Metaphor; Perspective; Space; Time

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; COGNITION; EPISODIC MEMORY; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECALL; SELF CONCEPT; TIME; TIME PERCEPTION;

BRAIN; COGNITION; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SELF CONCEPT; TIME; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 84859414951     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2011.01225.x     Document Type: Article

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