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.

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 ...

Some birds may use ‘mental time travel,’ study finds By Kate Golembiewski, CNN 5 minute read Updated 12:35 PM EDT, Thu May 23, 2024 Link Copied! Follow: ...

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 ...

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, ...

What a decades-long debate over animals' ability to imagine the future reveals about science, humanity, and futurism.

To find out whether Eurasian jays are capable of "mental time travel," researchers worked with birds trained to find food hidden under cups. Here, a Eurasian jay observes food being put in a cup ...

This aspect of episodic memory is sometimes referred to as “mental time travel.” To find out whether Eurasian jays are capable of mental time travel, the researchers worked with birds that had ...