TY - JOUR
T1 - Episodic future thought and its relation to remembering
T2 - Evidence from ratings of subjective experience
AU - Szpunar, Karl K.
AU - McDermott, Kathleen B.
PY - 2008/3
Y1 - 2008/3
N2 - The goal of the present study was to examine the hypothesis that the ability to construct vivid mental images of the future involves sampling the contents of memory. In two experiments, participants envisioned future scenarios occurring in contextual settings that were represented in memory in varying degrees of perceptual detail. In both experiments, detailed contextual settings were associated with more detailed images of the future and a stronger subjective experience. Our findings suggest that the contents of memory are routinely sampled during the construction of personal future scenarios.
AB - The goal of the present study was to examine the hypothesis that the ability to construct vivid mental images of the future involves sampling the contents of memory. In two experiments, participants envisioned future scenarios occurring in contextual settings that were represented in memory in varying degrees of perceptual detail. In both experiments, detailed contextual settings were associated with more detailed images of the future and a stronger subjective experience. Our findings suggest that the contents of memory are routinely sampled during the construction of personal future scenarios.
KW - Episodic future thought
KW - Episodic memory
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=40749084889&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.concog.2007.04.006
DO - 10.1016/j.concog.2007.04.006
M3 - Article
C2 - 17540581
AN - SCOPUS:40749084889
SN - 1053-8100
VL - 17
SP - 330
EP - 334
JO - Consciousness and Cognition
JF - Consciousness and Cognition
IS - 1
ER -