What are the essential cognitive requirements for prospection (thinking about the future)?

Placing the future centre stage as a way of understanding cognition is gaining attention in psychology. The general modern label for this is prospection which refers to the process of representing and thinking about possible future states of the world. Several theorists have claimed that episodic an...

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Main Author: Magda eOsman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00626/full