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    "title": "Remembered Futures and Anticipated Pasts: The Recursive Grammar of Mental Time Travel",
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    "abstract": "One feature of mental time travel is the ability to recursively embed temporal perspectives across different times: humans can remember how we anticipated the future and anticipate how we will remember the past. This recursive structure might be formalised in terms of a “grammar” that is reflective of but more general than linguistic notions of absolute and relative tense. Here I provide a foundation for this grammatical framework, emphasising a bounded (rather than unbounded) role of recursion in supporting mental time travel to a limited temporal depth and to actual and possible scenarios. Anticipated counterfactual thinking, for instance, entails three levels of mental time travel to a possible scenario (“in the future I will reflect on how my past self could have taken a different future action”) and is implicated in complex human decision-making. This perspective calls for further research into the nature and origins of recursive mental time travel.",
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            "word": "Psychology; Cognition of Time; Event cognition; Memory; Representation"
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            "last_name": "Redshaw",
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            "institution": "University of Queensland",
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    "date_published": "2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00",
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