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List of works by Thomas Suddendorf

A taxonomy of mental time travel and counterfactual thought: Insights from cognitive development

scientific article published on 21 July 2019

Acting with the future in mind is impaired in long-term opiate users.

scientific article published on 6 October 2016

Affective forecasting bias in preschool children

scientific article published on 10 March 2017

An evaluation of a suburban railway pedestrian crossing safety programme

scientific article published on 01 March 2001

An evolutionary perspective on the co-occurrence of social anxiety disorder and alcohol use disorder.

scientific article published on 17 February 2016

An obedient orangutan (Pongo abelii) performs perfectly in peripheral object-choice tasks but fails the standard centrally presented versions

scientific article published on February 1, 2011

Behavior. Foresight and evolution of the human mind

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Children's and Apes' Preparatory Responses to Two Mutually Exclusive Possibilities

scientific article published on 21 June 2016

Children's capacity to remember a novel problem and to secure its future solution

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Children's understanding of the relation between delayed video representation and current reality: a test for self-awareness?

scientific article published on 01 March 1999

Comprehensive Longitudinal Study Challenges the Existence of Neonatal Imitation in Humans.

scientific article published on 4 May 2016

Confidence as a diagnostic tool for perceptual aftereffects

scientific article published on 09 May 2019

Cuing both positive and negative episodic foresight reduces delay discounting but does not affect risk-taking

scientific article published on 23 January 2019

Delayed video self-recognition in children with high functioning autism and Asperger's disorder

scientific article published in September 2010

Different neural processes accompany self-recognition in photographs across the lifespan: an ERP study using dizygotic twins

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Disentangling the effect of event-based cues on children's time-based prospective memory performance.

scientific article published on 10 June 2016

Dissociating memory traces and scenario construction in mental time travel

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Do chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and 2-year-old children (Homo sapiens) understand double invisible displacement?

scientific article published in May 2006

Do chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) understand single invisible displacement?

scientific article published on 16 November 2005

Do dogs (Canis familiaris) understand invisible displacement?

scientific article published in December 2004

Early representational insight: twenty-four-month-olds can use a photo to find an object in the world

scientific article published on 01 May 2003

Episodic foresight and aging

scientific article published on 3 November 2014

Episodic foresight and anxiety: Proximate and ultimate perspectives.

scientific article published on 16 March 2015

Episodic foresight and schizophrenia.

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Episodic foresight and stroke

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Episodic memory versus episodic foresight: Similarities and differences.

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Feelings of the future.

scientific article published on 25 February 2015

Flexible Planning in Ravens?

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Foresight beyond the very next event: four-year-olds can link past and deferred future episodes.

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Future-Oriented Thought Patterns Associated With Anxiety and Depression in Later Life: The Intriguing Prospects of Prospection.

scientific article published on 13 February 2016

How great is great ape foresight?

scientific article published on 30 June 2009

Imitation recognition in a captive chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)

scientific article published on 21 August 2004

Imitation, mirror neurons and autism

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Individual differences in neonatal "imitation" fail to predict early social cognitive behaviour

scientific article published on 27 August 2019

Inferential reasoning by exclusion in children (Homo sapiens).

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Inferential reasoning by exclusion in great apes, lesser apes, and spider monkeys

scientific article published in February 2011

Introduction to the Special Issue: Prospection difficulties in clinical populations

scientific article published on 01 March 2016

Is newborn imitation developmentally homologous to later social-cognitive skills?

scientific article published on 19 June 2012

Linking yesterday and tomorrow: preschoolers' ability to report temporally displaced events.

scientific article published on June 2010

Making decisions with the future in mind: Developmental and comparative identification of mental time travel

Measuring mental time travel: Is the hippocampus really critical for episodic memory and episodic foresight?

scientific article published on 13 February 2019

Mental Time Travel and the Shaping of the Human Mind

Mental evolution and development: evidence for secondary representation in children, great ages, and other animals.

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Mental time travel and the shaping of the human mind

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Mental time travel in animals?

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Mental time travel: continuities and discontinuities.

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Mirror Self-Recognition Beyond the Face

Mirror, mirror on the wall, how does my brain recognize my image at all?

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Misconceptions about adaptive function.

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New evidence for animal foresight?

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On the ontogeny and phylogeny of the representational mind

1998 doctoral thesis by Thomas Suddendorf at University of Auckland

Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus and Pongo abelii) understand connectivity in the skewered grape tool task.

scientific article published on 11 June 2012

Participant loss due to "fussiness" in infant visual paradigms: a review of the last 20 years.

scientific article published on 25 January 2007

Practicing for the Future: Deliberate Practice in Early Childhood

scientific article published on 23 October 2017

Preparation for certain and uncertain future outcomes in young children and three species of monkey

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Preparatory responses to socially determined, mutually exclusive possibilities in chimpanzees and children

scientific article published on June 2017

Preschoolers begin to differentiate the times of events from throughout the lifespan

Prospection and natural selection

Prospection and the present moment: The role of episodic foresight in intertemporal choices between immediate and delayed rewards

Proximate and ultimate perspectives on memory

Re-evaluating the neonatal imitation hypothesis

scientific article published on 19 August 2018

Reducing the neural search space for hominid cognition: what distinguishes human and great ape brains from those of small apes?

scientific article published on June 2014

Response to Gallup et al.: are rich interpretations of visual self-recognition a bit too rich?

scientific article published on 14 December 2013

The Gap

2013 nonfiction book by Thomas Suddendorf that discusses what cognitive qualities separate humans from other animals, and how they evolved

The association of Social Anxiety Disorder, Alcohol Use Disorder and reproduction: Results from four nationally representative samples of adults in the USA.

scientific article published on 21 November 2017

The evolution of foresight: What is mental time travel, and is it unique to humans?

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The evolution of primate visual self-recognition: evidence of absence in lesser apes

scientific article (publication date: 7 May 2009)

The future is here: a review of foresight systems in anxiety and depression

scientific article published on 09 December 2013

The nature of visual self-recognition.

scientific article published on 12 February 2013

There is no compelling evidence that human neonates imitate.

scientific article published in January 2017

Thinking about threats: Memory and prospection in human threat management.

scientific article published on 31 January 2017

Thomas Suddendorf

scientific article published in January 2015

Understanding deliberate practice in preschool-aged children

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Using foresight to prioritise the present.

scientific article published in January 2017

Visual-auditory integration during speech imitation in autism.

scientific article published in November 2004

What is cognition?

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Why the confusion around neonatal imitation? A review

scientific article published in September 2013

Young Children From Three Diverse Cultures Spontaneously and Consistently Prepare for Alternative Future Possibilities

scientific article published on 08 May 2018

Young children's ability to distinguish past and future changes in physical and mental states.

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Young children's capacity to imagine and prepare for certain and uncertain future outcomes

scientific article published in PLoS ONE