Seeing the Future

Contributors 1. The Past, the Present, and the Future of Future-Oriented Mental Time Travel: Editors' Introduction Kourken Michaelian, Stanley B. Klein, Karl K. Szpunar Part 1: Varieties of Future-Oriented Cognition 2. Toward a Taxonomy of Future Thinking Karl K. Szpunar, R. Nathan Spreng, and Daniel L. Schacter Part 2: 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 Rose Addis Part 3: 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 Chloe Steindam 8. Time is Not of the Essence: Understanding the Neural Correlates of Mental Time Travel Felipe De Brigard and Bryce S. Gessell Part 4: 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 5: 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 6: 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 7: 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 8: 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 Index