Temporally asymmetric constraints on mental simulation: Retrospection is more constrained than prospection

Handbook of Imagination and Mental Simulation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 131-147

  Van Boven, Leaf ^a   Kane, Joanne ^a   Mc Graw, A Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203809846-15     Document Type: Chapter

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