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Mental time travel sickness and a Bayesian remedy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 October 2007

Jay Hegdé
Jay Hegdé
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455. [email protected]://www.hegde.us
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Abstract

Mental time travel is a principled, but a narrow and computationally limiting, implementation of foresight. Future events can be predicted with sufficient specificity without having to have episodic memory of specific past events. Bayesian estimation theory provides a framework by which one can make predictions about specific future events by combining information about various generic patterns in the past experience.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , June 2007 , pp. 323 - 324
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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