Seeing the Future

Kourken Michaelian, PhD, is a lecturer in the Philosophy Department at University of Otago and the author of Mental Time Travel: Episodic Memory and Our Knowledge of the Personal Past (2016). Stanley B. Klein, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at University of California Santa Barbara and author of The Two Selves: Their Metaphysical Commitments and Functional Independence (OUP, 2014). Karl K. Szpunar, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Psychology and Principal Investigator of the UIC Memory Lab at University of Illinois at Chicago.

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