Dere Ekrem, Dere Dorothea, de Souza Silva Maria Angelica, Huston Joseph P, Zlomuzica Armin
Teaching and Research Unit Life Sciences (927), University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France; Clinical Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany.
Georg Elias Müller Institute of Psychology, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Georg August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
Behav Brain Res. 2018 Oct 15;352:2-7. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2017.03.026. Epub 2017 Mar 19.
The impairment of mental time travel is a severe cognitive symptom in patients with brain lesions and a number of neuropsychiatric disorders. Whether animals are also able to mentally travel in time both forward and backward is still a matter of debate. In this regard, we have proposed a continuum of mental time travel abilities across different animal species, with humans being the species with the ability to perform most sophisticated forms of mental time travel. In this review and perspective article, we delineate a novel approach to understand the evolution, characteristics and function of human and animal mental time travel. Furthermore, we propose a novel approach to measure mental time travel in rodents in a comprehensive manner using a test battery composed of well-validated and easy applicable tests.
心理时间旅行受损是脑损伤患者和一些神经精神疾病患者的一种严重认知症状。动物是否也能够在心理上进行向前和向后的时间旅行，这仍然是一个有争议的问题。在这方面，我们提出了一个不同动物物种心理时间旅行能力的连续体，其中人类是能够进行最复杂形式心理时间旅行的物种。在这篇综述和观点文章中，我们阐述了一种理解人类和动物心理时间旅行的进化、特征和功能的新方法。此外，我们提出了一种新颖的方法，使用一组由经过充分验证且易于应用的测试组成的测试组合，以全面的方式测量啮齿动物的心理时间旅行。
