The organization of prospective thinking: Evidence of event clusters in freely generated future thoughts

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 75-83

  Demblon, Julie ^a   D'Argembeau, Arnaud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Autobiographical memory; Episodic memory; Event cluster; Future thinking; Goals; Prospection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUTUROLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; LIFE EVENT; LIKERT SCALE; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PROSPECTIVE THOUGHT; SPEECH; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; EPISODIC MEMORY; IMAGINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; SPEECH; THINKING; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893367239     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2014.01.002     Document Type: Article

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