Does The Future Exist?

Mind and the Frontal Lobes: Cognition, Behavior, and Brain Imaging

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Tulving, Endel ^a   Szpunar, Karl K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Existence; Future; Mental reality; Mental time travel; Past; Physical reality; Subjective time

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872739539     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199791569.003.0075     Document Type: Chapter

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