Envisioning the Future and Self-Regulation

Predictions in the Brain: Using Our Past to Generate a Future

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Taylor, Shelley E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Future planning; Mental simulations; Potential problems; Predictions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922760536     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195395518.003.0051     Document Type: Chapter

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