Doing what we imagine: Completion rates and frequency attributes of imagined future events one year after prospection

Memory

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 458-466

  Spreng, R Nathan ^a   Levine, Brian ^b,c  

^a Laboratory of Brain and Cognition Department of Human Development College of Human Ecology Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autobiographical prospective memory; Episodic future thought; Episodic memory; Mental simulation; Mental time travel

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; EMOTION; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF CONCEPT;

CUES; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF CONCEPT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876449196     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2012.736524     Document Type: Article

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