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The medium and the message of mental time travel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 October 2007

Endel Tulving  and
Alice Kim
Endel Tulving
Affiliation:
The Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Hospital, Toronto, M6A 2E1, Canada. [email protected]@utoronto.cahttp://rotman-baycrest.on.ca/index.php?section=219
Alice Kim
Affiliation:
The Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Hospital, Toronto, M6A 2E1, Canada. [email protected]@utoronto.cahttp://rotman-baycrest.on.ca/index.php?section=219
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Abstract

We add one point to Suddendorf & Corballis's (S&C's) story of mental time travel: For the future success of this hot, new area of research, it is imperative to pay attention to the fundamental distinction between the general brain/mind capacity that makes possible conscious awareness of the past and the future (the “medium”), on the one hand, and specific expressions of this capacity in a large variety of future-related mental activities (the “message”), on the other.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , June 2007 , pp. 334 - 335
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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