Endel Tulving

Consciousness of subjective time in the brain.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences December 6, 2010 Lars Nyberg, Alice S N Kim, Reza Habib et al.

"Mental time travel" refers to conscious experience of remembering the personal past and imagining the personal future. Little is known about its neural correlates. Here, using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we explored the hypothesis that mental time travel into "nonpresent" times (past and future) is enabled by a special conscious state (chronesthesia). Well-trained subjects...