Making progress in non-human mental time travel

Frontiers in Psychology

Corina J. Logan¹ 

关键词: mental time travel;    episodic memory;    future planning;    non-human;    imagination;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00305

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Humans can remember unique past events and plan for the future and they can imagine themselves at these events when they are not currently occurring, an ability often called mental time travel and thought to be distinctly human (Suddendorf and Corballis, 2007). The behavior of many non-human species indicates that they can also remember unique past events to plan for the future, however it is not known whether they actually imagine themselves outside of the present (Clayton et al., 2003).

【 授权许可】

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