Memory serves critical functions in everyday life but is also prone to error. This article
examines adaptive constructive processes, which play a functional role in memory and …

Episodic memory is widely conceived as a fundamentally constructive, rather than
reproductive, process that is prone to various kinds of errors and illusions. With a view …

Human memory is not a literal reproduction of the past, but instead relies on constructive
processes that are sometimes prone to error and distortion. Understanding of constructive …

Imagining future events and remembering past events rely on a common core network, but
several regions within this network—including the hippocampus—show increased activity …

Recent studies have shown that imagining or simulating future events relies on many of the
same cognitive and neural processes as remembering past events. According to the …

Abstract integrates a number of theoretical ideas from memory and problem solving,
including interference and recovery, contextual fluctuation, plans as long-term knowledge …

In this article I discuss how false memories do not always have to be associated with
negative outcomes. Indeed, under some circumstances, memory illusions, like other …

Just as physicists can explain complex systems with a small set of elegant equations (eg
Maxwell's), it might be possible for the multidisciplinary study of the brain to produce a list of …

A rapidly growing number of recent studies show that imagining the future depends on much
of the same neural machinery that is needed for remembering the past. These findings have …

This article focuses on the neural and cognitive processes that support imagining or
simulating future events, a topic that has recently emerged in the forefront of cognitive …