Foresight beyond the very next event: Four-year-olds can link past and deferred future episodes

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Redshaw, Jonathan ^a   Suddendorf, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Episodic foresight; Episodic memory; Mental time travel; Planning; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883145004     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00404     Document Type: Article

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