title: Mental time travel: a case for evolutionary continuity.
abstract: In humans, hippocampal activity responds to the imagining of past or future events. In rats, hippocampal activity is tied to particular locations in a maze, occurs after the animal has been in the maze, and sometimes corresponds to locations the animal did not actually visit. This suggests that mental time travel has neurophysiological underpinnings that go far back in evolution, and may not be, as some (including myself) have claimed, unique to humans.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand. m.corballis@auckland.ac.nz
authors.forename: Michael C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Corballis
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology; D005075:Biological Evolution; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D061212:Memory, Episodic; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000502:physiology*; D051381:Rats; D013995:Time