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CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION
Volume 63, Issue -, Pages 198-205Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2018.05.008
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Time; Goals; Episodic future thinking; Autobiographical memory
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- Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (Inserm)
- University of Strasbourg, France
- Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FRS-FNRS), Belgium
- University of Strasbourg
- University Hospital of Strasbourg, France
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Episodic future thinking refers to the human capacity to imagine or simulate events that might occur in one's personal future. Previous studies have shown that personal goals guide the construction and organization of episodic future thoughts, and here we sought to investigate the role of personal goals in the process of locating imagined events in time. Using a think-aloud protocol, we found that dates were directly accessed more frequently for goal-related than goal-unrelated future events, and the goal-relevance of events was a significant predictor of direct access to temporal information on a trial-by-trial basis. Furthermore, when an event was not directly dated, references to anticipated lifetime periods were more frequently used as a strategy to determine when a goal-related event might occur. Together, these findings shed new light on the mechanisms by which personal goals contribute to the location of imagined events in future times.
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