What differentiates episodic future thinking from complex scene imagery?

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 813-823

  de Vito, Stefania ^a,b   Gamboz, Nadia ^a   Brandimonte, Maria A ^a  

^a Universita degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Episodic memory; Familiarity; Future; Past; Self relevance; Simulation; Temporal

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FUTUROLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGERY; LIFE EVENT; MALE; SELF CONCEPT; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); THINKING;

EID: 84860538595     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2012.01.013     Document Type: Article

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