| Cognitive offloading: the use of physical action or external tools to alter the information processing requirements of a task and reduce internal cognitive demand. | Metacognition: cognition about cognition; the capacity to monitor, evaluate, and control one’s own cognitive processes. |
| Core network: a network of brain regions that show increased activity both when people remember past experiences and when they imagine future experiences. | Prospective memory: the ability to remember to carry out intentions in the future. |
| Delay discounting: the decline in the subjective value of an outcome with the delay to its receipt. | Retrospective time judgment: subjective timing judgments made at the end of an experiment without prior instructions to keep track of time. |
| Duration discrimination: deciding whether a comparison duration is shorter or longer than a presented duration. | Time estimation: tasks requiring participants to estimate how long stimuli were presented. |
| Episodic future thinking: the capacity to imagine or simulate experiences that might occur in one’s personal future. | Time perception: the ability to perceive, judge, and represent time intervals. |
| Episodic memory: recollection of personally experienced events situated within a unique spatial and temporal context. | Time production: the requirement to produce or generate experimenter-specified durations. |
| Intertemporal decision-making: making decisions with consequences that play out only over time, often involving trade-offs between sooner and later costs and benefits. | Time reproduction: the ability to reproduce specific durations presented by an experimenter. |
| Mental time travel: the capacity to mentally navigate through subjective time, including episodic memory and episodic foresight/future thinking. |