User:Taylordw/sandbox/Prospection

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Prospection is the capacity or act of imagining the future. It is formed by analogy to retrospection, or memory, the act of examining the past. Since the mid-2000s prospection has become an active area of research in cognitive psychology.

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The primacy of prospection over memory[edit]

A common brain mechanism[edit]

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Category:Cognitive science Category:Mental processes Category:Imagination Category:Future