Hostname: page-component-76fb5796d-wq484 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-26T12:24:21.540Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Past and future, human and nonhuman, semantic/procedural and episodic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 October 2007

James R. Hurford ,
Molly Flaherty  and
Giorgis Argyropoulos
James R. Hurford
Affiliation:
Language Evolution and Computation Research Unit, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9LL, United Kingdom. jim@ling.ed.ac.ukhttp://www.ling.ed.ac.uks0672076@ling.ed.ac.uks0677134@ling.ed.ac.uk
Molly Flaherty
Affiliation:
Language Evolution and Computation Research Unit, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9LL, United Kingdom. jim@ling.ed.ac.ukhttp://www.ling.ed.ac.uks0672076@ling.ed.ac.uks0677134@ling.ed.ac.uk
Giorgis Argyropoulos
Affiliation:
Language Evolution and Computation Research Unit, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9LL, United Kingdom. jim@ling.ed.ac.ukhttp://www.ling.ed.ac.uks0672076@ling.ed.ac.uks0677134@ling.ed.ac.uk
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

The overlap of representations of past and future is not a completely new idea. Suddendorf & Corballis (S&C) usefully discuss the problems of testing the existence of such representations. Our taxonomy of memory differs from theirs, emphasizing the late evolutionary emergence of notions of time in memory.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , June 2007 , pp. 324 - 325
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Cook, R., Brown, M. & Riley, D. (1983) Flexible memory processing by rats: Use of prospective and retrospective information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 11:453–69.Google Scholar
Gibson, J. J. (1979) The ecological approach to visual perception. Houghton Mifflin.Google Scholar
Hommel, B., Müsseler, J., Ascherslebel, G. & Prinz, W. (2001) The theory of event coding (TEC): A framework for perception and action planning. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24(5):849–78.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Hurford, J. R. (2007) The origins of meaning. Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Hurley, S. (2006) Making sense of animals. In: Rational animals?, ed. Hurley, S. & Nudds, M., pp. 139–71. Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Martin, A., Wiggs, C. L., Ungerleider, L. G. & Haxby, J. V. (1996) Neural correlates of category-specific knowledge. Nature 379:649–52.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Meacham, J. A. & Singer, J. (1977) Incentive effects in prospective remembering. Journal of Psychology 97:191–97.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mecklinger, A., Gruenewald, C., Besson, M., Magnie, M.-N. & Cramon, D. Y. V. (2002) Separable neuronal circuitries for manipulable and non-manipulable objects in working memory. Cerebral Cortex 12(11):1115–23.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Mulcahy, N. J. & Call, J. (2006) Apes save tools for future use. Science 312:1038–40.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Noë, A. (2004) Action in perception. MIT Press.Google Scholar
Raby, C. R., Alexis, D. M., Dickinson, A. & Clayton, N. S. (2007) Planning for the future by western scrub-jays. Nature 445(7130):919–21.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Schank, R. C. & Abelson, R. (1977) Scripts, plans, goals, and understanding. Erlbaum.Google Scholar
Schwartz, B. L., Meissner, C. A., Hoffman, M. L., Evans, S. & Frazier, L. D. (2004) Event memory and misinformation effects in a gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla). Animal Cognition 7:93–100.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tulving, E. (2005) Episodic memory and autonoesis: Uniquely human? In: The missing link in cognition: Origins of self-reflective consciousness, ed. Terrace, H. S. & Metcalfe, J., pp. 3–56. Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar