Back To The Future: Psychologists Examine Children's Mental Time Traveling Abilities
Tuesday, August 5, 2008 - 13:21
in Psychology & Sociology
Planning and anticipating occur so frequently in our everyday lives that it is hard to imagine a time when we didn’t have this capability. But just as many other capacities develop, so does this mental time traveling ability. Researchers have recently explored how children comprehend the future and ways that this understanding can be affected by, for example, their current physiological state.