From memory to prospection: What are the overlapping and the distinct components between remembering and imagining?

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Zheng, Huimin ^a   Luo, Jiayi ^a   Yu, Rongjun ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Cognitive control; Creativity; Emotion; Hippocampus; Memory; Prospection; Self

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906334408     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00856     Document Type: Review

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