Remembering the past to envision the future in middle childhood: Developmental linkages between prospection and episodic memory

Cognitive Development

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 96-110

  Coughlin, Christine ^a   Lyons, Kristen E ^a,b   Ghetti, Simona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

Episodic memory; Future thinking; Introspection; Prospection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898804685     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2014.02.001     Document Type: Article

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