Developing past and future selves for time travel narratives

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30 (3):327-328 (2007)
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Abstract

Mental time travel requires the sense of a past and future self, which is lacking in the early years of life. Research on the development of autobiographical memory and development of self sheds light on the difference between memory in other animals and its cultural narrative basis in humans

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Towards a theory of the development of autobiographical memory.Katherine Nelson - 1993 - In A. Collins, S. Gathercole, Martin A. Conway & P. E. Morris (eds.), Theories of Memory. Lawrence Erlbaum. pp. 185--283.

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