During the past few years, there has been a dramatic increase in research examining the
role of memory in imagination and future thinking. This work has revealed striking similarities …

Time and space are tightly linked in the physical word. Recently, several lines of evidence
have suggested that the mental representation of time might be spatial in nature. For …

Orientation is a fundamental mental function that processes the relations between the
behaving self to space (places), time (events), and person (people). Behavioral and …

If there is one topic on which we all are experts, it is ourselves. Psychologists depend on this
expertise, as asking people questions about themselves is an important means by which …

“Mental time travel” refers to conscious experience of remembering the personal past and
imagining the personal future. Little is known about its neural correlates. Here, using …

Meditation practice can lead to what have been referred to as “altered states of
consciousness.” One of the phenomenological characteristics of these states is a joint …

Memory is a general attribute of living species, whose diversification reflects both
evolutionary and developmental processes. Episodic-autobiographical memory (EAM) is …

Research on future‐oriented mental time travel (FMTT) is highly active yet somewhat unruly.
I believe this is due, in large part, to the complexity of both the tasks used to test FMTT and …

Neurobiological models of self-control predominantly focus on the role of prefrontal brain
mechanisms involved in emotion regulation and impulse control. We provide evidence for …

The human amygdala is strongly embedded in numerous other structures of the limbic
system, but is also a hub for a multitude of other brain regions it is connected with. Its major …