Mental time travel describes our ability to recall and reconstruct past events from our lives, as well as to visualize and anticipate how various situations and events might play out in the future.

Mental time travel seems particularly important in relationships. I want to revisit our beautiful past together and imagine our future. But I also have to keep track of the current status of our ...

Mental time travel also occurs when we become immersed in a book, movie or play. Streaming of movies and TV series has increased exponentially during the coronavirus pandemic, according to recent ...

Buckle up — mental time travel is a wild ride. Wrinkles, crinkles and sags are just a few signs of aging that most men and women (even Botox buffs) can expect to see creep up on their faces as ...

Research on “collective mental time travel” shows that the way we imagine the collective future or past also impacts the present. It can sway attitudes toward policy decisions and laws, as ...

Corballis suggests that mental time travel is one of two human ways of thinking that propelled our species into a unique cognitive status. (The other, theory of mind, I won't deal with here.) ...

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Mental time travel is an exercise in episodic memory, a form of long-term memory for events. Unlike semantic memory, which allows us to recall facts and information, ...