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.

Seeing myself in ‘old age’ with mental time travel made me change the way I live now By . Asia Grace. Published Oct. 2, 2023, 12:35 p.m. ET. Explore More ...

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 ...

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

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: ...

Evolutionary psychologists Thomas Suddendorf and Micheal Corballis, for example, have argued that the cognitive development of mental time travel was a crucial step in the evolutionary success of our ...

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, ...

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 ...