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. 2021 Nov 12;11(11):1502. doi: 10.3390/brainsci11111502
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.