Originally understood as memory for the “what”, the “when”, and the “where” of experienced past events, episodic memory has, in recent years, been redefined as a form of past-oriented mental time travel. Following a brief review of empirical research on memory as mental time travel, this introduction provides an overview of the contributions to the special issue, which explore the theoretical implications of that research.

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社论：记忆是精神旅行

最初，情节性记忆最初被理解为对经历的过去事件的“什么”，“何时”以及“何处”的记忆，近年来已被重新定义为面向过去的心理时间旅行的一种形式。在简要回顾了关于记忆作为心理时间旅行的实证研究之后，本引言概述了对这一特殊问题的贡献，探讨了该研究的理论意义。