Varieties of Future Experience

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Szpunar, Karl K ^a   Tulving, Endel ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autonoetic consciousness; Brain; Episodic future thought; Future orientation; Predictive mental activities; Prospective memory; Temporal existence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922760632     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195395518.003.0008     Document Type: Chapter

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