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episodic simulation CONCEPT
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the construction of a detailed mental representation of a specific autobiographical future event (from Szpunar, K.K., Spreng, R.N., & Schacter, D.L. (2014). A taxonomy of prospection: introducing an organizational framework for future-oriented cognition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111 52, 18414-21)

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Asserted relationships to other concepts

episodic simulation
is a kind of
  • episodic future thinking
    • episodic simulation
    is a part of
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    are a kind of
    episodic simulation
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    episodic simulation
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    Tasks that are asserted to measure episodic simulation

    Task Contrast Measure
    episodic recombination paradigm
    • past
    • future

    Term BIBLIOGRAPHY

    A taxonomy of prospection: Introducing an organizational framework for future-oriented cognition: Fig. 1.
    Karl K. Szpunar, R. Nathan Spreng and Daniel L. Schacter
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
    2014-12-30