Author(s): Coelho, Sara ; Guerreiro, Manuela ; Chester, Catarina ; Silva, Dina ; Maroco, Joao ; Paglieri, Fabio ; de Mendonca, Alexandre
Date: 2019
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/14302
Origin: Sapientia - Universidade do Algarve
Subject(s): Autobiographical memory; Decision-making; Semantic memory; Episodic simulation; Future; Evolution; Mind; Interview; Deficits; Network
Introduction: Mental Time Travel (MTT) is the people's ability to remember themselves in the past and to imagine themselves in the future, and influence important life domains such as making decisions and planning future actions. It is widely recognized that patients with aMCI have deficits in episodic memory, but they also show impairments in semantic memory. It has been controversial whether MTT tasks are disturbed in aMCI mainly in relation to internal details related to episodic information, or external details, representing semantic and other extraneous information. The present study assessed whether patients with aMCI are affected in MTT regarding generation of internal details and external details, in past and future dimensions. Furthermore, it analyzed production in individual detail categories (internal: event details, thought/emotion, place, time, perceptual
