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[Remembering past events activates temporal concepts of future]

Yuichi Ito, Yosuke Hattori, Jun Kawaguchi

    Shinrigaku Kenkyu : the Japanese Journal of Psychology
    |November 14, 2015
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    Remembering the past activates near-future concepts more than distant ones, suggesting episodic memory influences our sense of time. This research explores mental time travel and episodic memory retrieval.

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