title: Mental time travel: animals anticipate the future.
abstract: Recent behavioral experiments with scrub jays and nonhuman primates indicate they can anticipate and plan for future needs not currently experienced. Combined with accumulating evidence for episodic-like memory in animals, these studies suggest that some animals can mentally time travel into both the past and future.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5C2, Canada. roberts@uwo.ca <roberts@uwo.ca>
authors.forename: William A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Roberts
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001066:Appetite; D003463:Cues; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D009042:Motivation; D046109:Passeriformes / Q000502:physiology*; D013998:Time Perception