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BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES
Volume 72, Issue 2, Pages 173-183Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2006.01.009
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mental time travel; animals; episodic memory; prospective memory; retrospective memory
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- NIMH NIH HHS [MH-59194] Funding Source: Medline
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Humans have the ability to mentally recreate past events (using episodic memory) and imagine future events (by planning). The best evidence for such mental time travel is personal and thus subjective. For this reason, it is particularly difficult to study such behavior in animals. There is some indirect evidence, however, that animals have both episodic memory and the ability to plan for the future. When unexpectedly asked to do so, animals can report about their recent past experiences (episodic memory) and they also appear to be able to use the anticipation of a future event as the basis for a present action (planning). Thus, the ability to imagine past and future events may not be uniquely human. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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