Mental time travel: continuities and discontinuities

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 151-152

  Suddendorf, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LETTER; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL TIME TRAVEL; NONHUMAN; SPATIAL LEARNING; TIME;

EID: 84875810468     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2013.01.011     Document Type: Letter

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