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| Title |
Wandering tales: evolutionary origins of mental time travel and language
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00485 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Michael C. Corballis |
| Abstract |
A central component of mind wandering is mental time travel, the calling to mind of remembered past events and of imagined future ones. Mental time travel may also be critical to the evolution of language, which enables us to communicate about the non-present, sharing memories, plans, and ideas. Mental time travel is indexed in humans by hippocampal activity, and studies also suggest that the hippocampus in rats is active when the animals replay or pre play activity in a spatial environment, such as a maze. Mental time travel may have ancient origins, contrary to the view that it is unique to humans. Since mental time travel is also thought to underlie language, these findings suggest that language evolved gradually from pre-existing cognitive capacities, contrary to the view of Chomsky and others that language and symbolic thought emerged abruptly, in a single step, within the past 100,000 years. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 50% |
| Japan | 1 | 10% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 10% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 10% |
| Italy | 1 | 10% |
| Unknown | 1 | 10% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 9 | 90% |
| Scientists | 1 | 10% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 121 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 2% |
| France | 2 | 2% |
| Denmark | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 115 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 25 | 21% |
| Researcher | 18 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 16 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 11 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 7% |
| Other | 25 | 21% |
| Unknown | 18 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 46 | 38% |
| Neuroscience | 15 | 12% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 12 | 10% |
| Social Sciences | 6 | 5% |
| Linguistics | 5 | 4% |
| Other | 15 | 12% |
| Unknown | 22 | 18% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 41. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 December 2021.
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