What are the essential cognitive requirements for prospection (thinking about the future)?

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue JUN, 2014, Pages

  Osman, Magda ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Causality; Comparitive cognition; Episodic memory; Future thinking; Goal directed behavior; Planning; Prospection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904564415     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00626     Document Type: Short Survey

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