Seeing the Future

Kourken Michaelian, PhD, is a lecturer in the Philosophy Department at University of Otago and the author of Mental Time Travel: Episodic Memory and Our Knowledge of the Personal Past (2016).Stanley B. Klein, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at University of California Santa Barbara and author of The Two Selves: Their Metaphysical Commitments and Functional Independence (OUP, 2014).Karl K. Szpunar, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Psychology and Principal Investigator of the UIC Memory Lab at University of Illinois at Chicago.

• Contributors 1. The Past, the Present, and the Future of Future-Oriented Mental Time Travel: Editors' IntroductionKourken Michaelian, Stanley B. Klein, Karl K. Szpunar Part 1: Varieties of Future-Oriented Cognition 2. Toward a Taxonomy of Future Thinking Karl K. Szpunar, R. Nathan Spreng, and Daniel L. Schacter Part 2: Relationships Between Future-Oriented Mental Time Travel and Episodic Memory 3. Asymmetries in Subjective Time Denis Perrin 4. Against Discontinuism: Mental Time Travel and our Knowledge of Past and Future Events Kourken Michaelian 5. Bidirectional Interactions Between Memory and Imagination Aleea L. Devitt and Donna Rose Addis Part 3: Subjective Temporality in Future-Oriented Mental Time Travel 6. Temporal Consciousness and Confabulation: When Mental Time Travel Takes the Wrong TrackGianfranco Dalla Barba 7. The Role of Subjective Temporality in Future-Oriented Mental Time Travel Stanley B. Klein and Chloe Steindam 8. Time is Not of the Essence: Understanding the Neural Correlates of Mental Time Travel Felipe De Brigard and Bryce S. Gessell Part 4: The Self in Future-Oriented Mental Time Travel 9. Future Mental Time Travel and the Me-Self Liliann Manning 10. The Role of Personal Goals in Future-Oriented Mental Time Travel Arnaud D'Argembeau Part 5: Functional Perspectives 11. Temporal Perspectives on Imagination: On the Nature and Value of Imagining the Future Dorothea Debus 12. Making Decisions About the Future: Regret and the Cognitive Function of Episodic Memory Christoph Hoerl and Teresa McCormack 13. The Mechanisms and Benefits of a Future-Oriented Brain Giovanni Pezzulo Part 6: Evolutionary and Comparative Perspectives 14. Evolutionary Perspectives on Prospective Cognition James M. Thom and Nicola S. Clayton 15. With the Future in Mind: Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of the Evolution of Future-Oriented Cognition Gema Martin-Ordas 16. The Future of Memory, Mental Time Travel, and Mind Wandering Michael C. Corballis Part 7: Developmental Perspectives 17. Shaping One's Future Self: The Development of Deliberate Practice Thomas Suddendorf, Melissa Brinums, and Kana Imuta 18. Episodic Future Thinking in Children: Methodological and Theoretical Approaches Cristina M. Atance and Caitlin E.V. Mahy Part 8: Clinical Perspectives 19. Semantic Memory as the Essential Scaffold for Future-Oriented Mental Time Travel Muireann Irish 20. The Impact of Multiple Sclerosis in Future-Oriented Mental Time Travel: Neuropsychological and Neuroimagining Approaches Alexandra Ernst and Liliann Manning Index

Seeing the Future: Theoretical Perspectives on Future-Oriented Mental Time Travel captures the recent surge of interest in our ability to engage in future thinking and what it tells us about mental representations of time, space, the self, and the reconstructive nature of memory. The editors and contributors successfully assemble diverse theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches to the study of mental time travel, a feast for the minds of graduate students and seasoned professionals alike. The result is an in-depth, incisive treatment of the cognitive and neural bases of temporal thought from leaders in the fields of philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience that is sure to influence the direction of future research on mental time travel.