Hoerl & McCormack suggest that saving tools does not require temporal reasoning.
However, we identify a class of objects that are only possessed (ie, saved) in anticipation of …

Hoerl & McCormack discuss the benefits of temporal reasoning mainly with respect to future
planning and decision making. I point out that, for humans, the ability to represent particular …

In a dynamic world, mechanisms allowing prediction of future situations can provide a
selective advantage. We suggest that memory systems differ in the degree of flexibility they …

Hoerl & McCormack argue that animals cannot represent past situations and subsume
animals' memory-like representations within a model of the world. I suggest calling these …

Suddendorf & Corballis (S&C) argue that animals are not capable of mental time travel
(MTT) or its components. However, new results on chimpanzees suggest that they plan for …

We argue that the two temporal cognition systems are conceptually too confined to be
helpful in understanding the evolution of temporal cognition. In fact, we doubt there are two …

The claim that nonhuman animals lack foresight is common and intuitive. I propose an
alternative whereby foresight is a gradual continuum in that it is present in animals to the …

Hoerl and McCormack argue that comparative and developmental psychology teaches us
that neither animals nor infants can think and reason about time. We argue that the authors …

Corresponding to Glenberg's distinction between the automatic and effortful modes of
memory, I propose a distinction between cued and detached mental representations. A cued …

In their scholarly target article, Gilead et al. explain how abstract mental representations and
the predictive brain enable prospection and time-traveling. However, their exclusive focus …