The ability to decouple from the present environment and explore other times is a central
feature of the human mind. Research in cognitive psychology and neuroscience has shown …

Early cognitive neuroscientific research revealed that the hippocampus is crucial for spatial
navigation in rodents, and for autobiographical episodic memory in humans. Researchers …

Although Galton recognized in the 1880s that some individuals lack visual imagery, this
phenomenon was mostly neglected over the following century. We recently coined the terms …

The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

Our capacity to re-experience the past and simulate the future is thought to depend heavily
on visual imagery, which allows us to construct complex sensory representations in the …

Recollection of one's personal past, or autobiographical memory (AM), varies across
individuals and across the life span. This manifests in the amount of episodic content …

Human Memory, 4th edition, provides a comprehensive overview of research and theory on
human memory. Written in an engaging style, the book is divided into three sections …

We introduce the Autobiographical Recollection Test (ART) to examine individual
differences in how well people think they remember personal events. The ART comprises …

Neurodevelopmental disorders are categorized and studied according to their
manifestations as distinct syndromes. For instance, congenital prosopagnosia and dyslexia …

Scene Construction Theory suggests similar neural mechanisms for visual imagery and
autobiographical memory, supporting the seeming scientific consensus that a loss of visual …