Seeing the Future: Theoretical Perspectives on Future-Oriented Mental Time Travel

K. Michaelian, S. B. Klein, and K. K. Szpunar, eds. 2016. Seeing the Future: Theoretical Perspectives on Future-Oriented Mental Time Travel. Oxford University Press. [publisher's site]

Contents:

    • 1 The past, the present, and the future of future-oriented mental time travel: Editors' introduction. Kourken Michaelian, Stanley B. Klein, and Karl K. Szpunar.
  • Part I: Varieties of future-oriented cognition
    • 2 Toward a taxonomy of future thinking. Karl K. Szpunar, R. Nathan Spreng, and Daniel L. Schacter.
  • Part II: Relationships between future-oriented mental time travel and episodic memory
    • 3 Asymmetries in subjective time. Denis Perrin.
    • 4 Against discontinuism: Mental time travel and our knowledge of past and future events. Kourken Michaelian.
    • 5 Bidirectional interactions between memory and imagination. Aleea L. Devitt and Donna R. Addis.
  • Part III: Subjective temporality in future-oriented mental time travel
    • 6 Temporal consciousness and confabulation: When mental time travel takes the wrong track. Gianfranco Dalla Barba.
    • 7 The role of subjective temporality in future-oriented mental time travel. Stanley B. Klein and C. Steindam.
    • 8 Time is not of the essence: Understanding the neural correlates of mental time travel. Felipe De Brigard and Bryce S. Gessell.
  • Part IV: The self in future-oriented mental time travel
    • 9 Future mental time travel and the me-self. Liliann Manning.
    • 10 The role of personal goals in future-oriented mental time travel. Arnaud D'Argembeau.
  • Part V: Functional perspectives
    • 11 Temporal perspectives on imagination: On the nature and value of imagining the future. Dorothea Debus.
    • 12 Making decisions about the future: Regret and the cognitive function of episodic memory. Christoph Hoerl and Teresa McCormack.
    • 13 The mechanisms and benefits of a future-oriented brain. Giovanni Pezzulo.
  • Part VI: Evolutionary and comparative perspectives
    • 14 Evolutionary perspectives on prospective cognition. James M. Thom and Nicola S. Clayton.
    • 15 With the future in mind: Towards a comprehensive understanding of the evolution of future-oriented cognition. Gema Martin-Ordas.
    • 16 The future of memory, mental time travel, and mind wandering. Michael C. Corballis.
  • Part VII: Developmental perspectives
    • 17 Shaping one's future self: The development of deliberate practice. Thomas Suddendorf, Melissa Brinums, and Kana Imuta.
    • 18 Episodic future thinking in children: Methodological and theoretical approaches. Cristina M. Atance and Caitlin E. V. Mahy.
  • Part VIII: Clinical perspectives
    • 19 Semantic memory as the essential scaffold for future-oriented mental time travel. Muireann Irish.
    • 20 The impact of multiple sclerosis in future-oriented mental time travel: Neuropsychological and neuroimagining approaches. Alexandra Ernst and Liliann Manning.

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