Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - 2007 - Volume 30, Issue 03  

Open Peer Commentary

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

James R. Hurforda1, Molly Flahertya1 and Giorgis Argyropoulosa1

a1 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.uk http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk s0672076@ling.ed.ac.uk s0677134@ling.ed.ac.uk

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.

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