mental time travel / voyage mental dans le temps
Group: Nonhuman animal, Human, Psychology
Groupe : Animal non humain, Homme, Psychologie
Definition: A term coined "to refer to the faculty that allows humans to mentally project themselves backwards in time to re-live, or forwards to pre-live, events" (Suddendorf et Corballis, 2007, p. 299).
Définition : « capacité de se détacher temporairement de son environnement immédiat pour voyager mentalement dans le temps et ainsi se souvenir d’événements de son passé (mémoire autobiographique ; e.g., son dernier dîner entre amis) ou imaginer des événements de son futur (pensée future ; e.g., sa prochaine communication en congrès). » (Ernst, 2019, p. 41).
Broader term: phenomenological characteristic of memory
Terme générique : caractéristique phénoménologique de la mémoire
Narrower terms: episodic future thought
Termes spécifiques : pensée future épisodique
Related terms: episodic memory, simulation theory, autonoetic consciousness, chronesthesia, late frontal effect, mnemonic time-travel effect
Termes associés : mémoire épisodique, théorie simulationniste, conscience autonoétique, chronesthésie, effet frontal tardif, effet du voyage mnésique dans le temps
Has theories: discontinuism, continuism
Selected bibliography: Addis, D. R., Wong, A. T., & Schacter, D. L. (2007). Remembering the past and imagining the future: Common and distinct neural substrates during event construction and elaboration. Neuropsychologia, 45(7), 1363–1377. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.10.016 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed], Addis, D. R. (2020). Mental time travel? A neurocognitive model of event simulation. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 11(2), 233–259. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-020-00470-0 [Study type: literature review / Access: closed], Busby, J., & Suddendorf, T. (2005). Recalling yesterday and predicting tomorrow. Cognitive Development, 20(3), 362–372. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2005.05.002 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed], Corballis, M. C. (2019). Mental time travel, language, and evolution. Neuropsychologia, 134, 107202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107202 [Study type: literature review / Access: closed], Ernst, A. (2019). Le voyage mental dans le temps à la lumière des neurosciences cognitives et de la neuropsychologie clinique. Psychiatrie, Sciences humaines, Neurosciences, 17(3), 41–55. https://www.cairn.info/revue-psn-2019-3-page-41.htm [Study type: literature review / Access: open], Michaelian, K. (2016). Mental time travel: Episodic memory and our knowledge of the personal past. The MIT Press. [Study type: literature review / Access: closed], Michaelian, K., Klein, S. B., & Szpunar, K. K. (2016). Seeing the future : Theoretical perspectives on future-oriented mental time travel. Oxford University Press. [Study type: literature review / Access: closed], Perrin, D., & Michaelian, K. (2017). Memory as mental time travel. In S. Bernecker & K. Michaelian (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of philosophy of memory (pp. 228–239). Routledge. [Study type: conceptual analysis / Access: closed], Sant’Anna, A. (2018). Mental time travel and the philosophy of memory. Filosofia Unisinos, 19(1), 52–62. https://doi.org/10.4013/fsu.2018.191.06 [Study type: conceptual analysis / Access: open], Suddendorf, T., & Corballis, M. C. (1997). Mental time travel and the evolution of the human mind. Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs, 123(2), 133–167. [Study type: literature review / Access: closed], Suddendorf, T., & Corballis, M. C. (2007). The evolution of foresight: What is mental time travel, and is it unique to humans? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30(3), 299–313. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X07001975 [Study type: literature review / Access: closed], Wang, Y., Ye, J., Lui, S. S. Y., & Chan, R. C. K. (2023). Mental time travel in psychiatric disorders. PsyCh Journal, 12(4), 543-546. https://doi.org/10.1002/pchj.634 [Study type: literature review / Access: closed], Wheeler, M. A., Stuss, D. T., & Tulving, E. (1997). Toward a theory of episodic memory: the frontal lobes and autonoetic consciousness. Psychological Bulletin, 121(3), 331–354. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.121.3.331 [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
Dataset citations: Hofmann, W., Summerville, A., & Baumeister, R. (2020, March 14). Dataset and Materials for “Everyday Thoughts in Time: Experience Sampling Studies of Mental Time Travel.” https://osf.io/9uytp/, Suo, T., & Wang, Q. (2021, February 23). Data for Culture and Visual Perspective in Mental Time Travel: The Relations to Psychological Well-being. doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/EPJUF