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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.
Etymology
The evolution of prospection
The primacy of prospection over memory
A common brain mechanism
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See Also
Category:Cognitive science Category:Mental processes Category:Imagination Category:Future