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

Well-structured knowledge allows us to quickly understand the world around us and make
informed decisions to adequately control behavior. Knowledge structures, or schemas, are …

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 …

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 …

Functional neuroimaging research has recently revealed brain network interactions during
performance on creative thinking tasks—particularly among regions of the default and …

Prior research has indicated that brain regions and networks that support semantic memory,
top-down and bottom-up attention, and cognitive control are all involved in divergent …

Questions concerning the relation between memory and imagination have occupied a
prominent place in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience during the past several …

Cognitive and neuroimaging evidence suggests that episodic and semantic memory—
memory for autobiographical events and conceptual knowledge, respectively—support …

Hemispheric lateralization for creative thinking remains a controversial topic. Early
behavioral and neuroimaging research supported right hemisphere dominance in creative …

During mammalian evolution, primate neocortex expanded, shifting hippocampal functional
networks away from primary sensory cortices, towards association cortices. Reflecting this …