Remembering the past and imagining the future: Identifying and enhancing the contribution of episodic memory

Memory Studies

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 245-255

  Schacter, Daniel L ^a   Madore, Kevin P ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

episodic memory; episodic simulation; episodic specificity induction; imagining the future

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977548259     PISSN: 17506980     EISSN: 17506999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1750698016645230     Document Type: Article

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