Humanity has regarded itself as intellectually superior to other species for millennia, yet
human cognitive uniqueness remains poorly understood. Here, we evaluate candidate traits …

Distortions in the recollection of autobiographical memories are a transdiagnostic feature of
multiple mental health difficulties including mood, anxiety, stressor-related, eating and …

How do collective events shape how we remember our lives? We leveraged advances in
natural language processing as well as a rich, longitudinal assessment of 1,000 Americans …

In recent years, scientists have increasingly taken to investigate the predictive nature of
cognition. We argue that prediction relies on abstraction, and thus theories of predictive …

The tendency to recall events from one's past in a non-specific and overgeneral way has
been found to predict the onset and severity of a range of emotional disorders. Memory …

Many fundamental choices in life are intertemporal: they involve trade-offs between sooner
and later outcomes. In recent years there has been a surge of interest into how people make …

The core network refers to a set of neural regions that have been consistently associated
with episodic memory retrieval and episodic future simulation. This network is thought to …

Humans can imagine what happened in the past and what will happen in the future, but also
what did not happen and what might happen. We reflect on envisioned events from …

Research has suggested that an episodic specificity induction (ESI)–training in recollecting
details of a past event–impacts subsequent memory, imagination, problem solving, and …

Episodic simulation–the mental construction of a possible future event–has been
consistently associated with enhanced activity in a set of neural regions referred to as the …