Highlights•Research on episodic future thinking has increased dramatically during the past
decade.•Cognitive studies have begun to separate the contributions of episodic retrieval …

The distinction between episodic and semantic memory was first proposed in 1972 by Endel
Tulving and is still of central importance in cognitive neuroscience. However, data obtained …

Episodic memory has been analyzed in a number of different ways in both philosophy and
psychology, and most controversy has centered on its self-referential, autonoetic character …

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 …

Humans are capable of imagining future rewards and the contexts in which they may be
obtained. Functionally, intertemporal choices between smaller but immediate and larger but …

Memory and the self have long been considered intertwined, leading to the assumption that
without memory, there can be no self. This line of reasoning has led to the misconception …

In this review, we consider how the onset and progression of dementia can disrupt one's
sense of self, and propose that music is an ideal tool for alleviating this distressing symptom …

Mental imagery refers to the experience of perception in the absence of external sensory
input. Deficits in the ability to generate mental imagery or to distinguish it from actual sensory …

Highlights•Mounting evidence indicates unclear boundaries between episodic/semantic
memory.•A unimodal to multimodal cortical hierarchy may explain the convergence of …

The fields of psychology and neuroscience are in the midst of an explosion of research
aimed at illuminating the human imagination—the ability to form thoughts and mental …