Mental time travel? A neurocognitive model of event simulation

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<p>Mental time travel (MTT) is defined as projecting the self into the past and the future. Despite growing evidence of the similarities of remembering past and imagining future events, dominant theories conceive of these as distinct capacities. I propose that memory and imagination are fundamentally the same process – constructive episodic simulation – and demonstrate that the ‘simulation system’ meets the three...

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• Catechol O-Methyltransferase
• Cerebral Cortex
• Emotions
• Inhibition, Psychological
• Memory, Short-Term
• Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
• Receptors, Dopamine D1
• Receptors, Dopamine D2

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78e740a2-1227-5128-b209-9eaa826edb2f

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10.31234/osf.io/3acv7