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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"mental time travel"”.
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Self-Distancing as a Persuasive Amplifier for Increasing Help-Seeking among People with Depression
… research using both perspective-taking and mental time-travel self-distancing writing tasks have shown potential. However, a video that asked people to think, rather than write, about help-seeking from a distanced perspective failed to increase help-seeking outcomes. This dissertation tests …
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Cross-species comparisons of the retrosplenial cortex in primates: Through time and neuropil space
Chronesthesia, or mental time travel (MTT), is the ability to be conscious of both past experiences and possible future scenarios. Behavioral studies have demonstrated that some non-human animals are capable of episodic-like memory, yet there exists no scientific consensus on the extent of memory …
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Is It Time? Examining the Effects of Episodic Imagining on Reward Discounting
Mental time-travel affords us the ability to simulate hypothetical episodes that shape our decisions about the future, as documented on tests of intertemporal choice where personal cueing greatly reduces future reward discounting. Despite this robust finding, it is unclear whether this modulatory …
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Intimate Past & Present Light: Using Photography to Investigate Self-Defining Memories
… by Endel Tulving’s hypothesis of chronesthesia (mental time travel) and Henri Bergson’s theory of recollection recovery. Through conception and execution of reworked photographs, I occupied a distinctive space as a maker/subject. This space, which I have termed prepositional space, allowed me to …
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Intimate Past & Present Light: Using Photography to Investigate Self-Defining Memories
… by Endel Tulving’s hypothesis of chronesthesia (mental time travel) and Henri Bergson’s theory of recollection recovery. Through conception and execution of reworked photographs, I occupied a distinctive space as a maker/subject. This space, which I have termed prepositional space, allowed me to …
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Individuals With Amnesia are not Stuck in Time: Evidence From Risky Decision-Making, Intertemporal Choice, and Scaffolded Narratives
… with amnesia are cognitively stuck in time. In Experiment 1, I used a Galton-Crovitz cueing paradigm to test etiologically diverse amnesic cases on their ability to richly recollect autobiographical episodic memories and imagine future experiences. In Experiment 2, I use two behavioural …
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Episodic Memory Development in Childhood: Contributions from Brain Electrical Activity and Executive Functions
… details surrounding an event, the capacity for mental time travel of past and future events, and is characterized by the subjective awareness that an event has been personally experienced. It is fundamental to our understanding of this complex memory system to examine how episodic memory emerges …
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Elements of episodic-like memory in non-human animals: theory, methodology, and evolution
… wild is imperative. Therefore, in my final experimental chapter, I combine the what-where-when memory and incidental encoding paradigms to comprehensively test the memory abilities of wild, free-living, non-caching parids. I used automated computerised feeders with custom-built programmes that …
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I See, Therefore I Think - The Role of Observed Realities on Cognition in Rooks (Corvus frugilegus) and African Grey Parrots (Psittacus erithacus)
… is secondary representation: entertaining mental models of multiple versions of reality. Secondary representation is likely a pre-requisite for several other abilities, including mental time travel, theory of mind, and self-awareness. While evidence of such abilities is found in both …
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Episodic cognition: what is it, where is it, and when does it develop?
Episodic Cognition (or “Mental Time Travel”) is the ability to mentally re-experience events from our personal past and imagine potential events from our personal future. This capacity is fundamental to our lives and has been argued to be uniquely human. The aim of this thesis is to use behavioural …
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The sensory ecology of yellow warbler referential alarm calls
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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Processing Novel and Competing Demands: Essays on Managerial Approaches to Change
… what we call ‘Temporal Reconstrual’ – a kind of “mental time travel” – in which managers make decisions about the present from the perspective of the future, by adjusting their orientation in time. Drawing on literature from temporal sensemaking, neuroscience and cognitive theory, we show how such …