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Developing past and future selves for time travel narratives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 October 2007

Katherine Nelson
Katherine Nelson
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, NY 10016-4309. [email protected]
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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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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , June 2007 , pp. 327 - 328
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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