The role of context in understanding similarities and differences in remembering and episodic future thinking

Kathleen B. McDermott, Adrian W. Gilmore

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Abstract

Remembering events from one's lifetime (autobiographical remembering) and envisioning events one might experience in the future (episodic future thought) call upon many similar cognitive processes, yet humans can routinely distinguish between the two. How can we understand their similarities and differences (in phenomenological and processing terms)? This chapter suggests that the greater accessibility of contextual associations for remembered events than imagined events plays a key role in understanding this puzzle, and we present behavioral and neuroimaging evidence that converges on this conclusion.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPsychology of Learning and Motivation - Advances in Research and Theory, 2015
EditorsBrian H. Ross
PublisherAcademic Press Inc.
Pages45-76
Number of pages32
ISBN (Print)9780128022467
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015

Publication series

NamePsychology of Learning and Motivation - Advances in Research and Theory
Volume63
ISSN (Print)0079-7421

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