The role of episodic memory in imagining and planning for the future

为了将来的计划，我们借鉴过去的经验。在许多情况下，过去的经历被用来想象尚未经历的新的潜在场景。这个项目将详细研究记忆在想象可能的未来和规划这些可能性中的作用，借鉴我们当代对人类记忆计算模型中捕获的记忆的理解。通过控制人们编入记忆的信息，从而确定人们构建未来模拟的构建模块，该项目将获得有价值的数据，这些数据将用于开发记忆机制和表征在想象和计划中的作用的详细而精确的计算模型。

For future planning we draw on past experiences. In many cases, past experiences are used to imagine novel potential scenarios yet to be experienced. This project will examine in detail the role of memory in imagining possible futures and planning for those possibilities, drawing on our contemporary understanding of memory as captured in computational models of human memory. By controlling the information that people encode into memory, and thus determining the building blocks from which people build simulations of the future, this project will gain valuable data that will be used to develop a detailed and precise computational model of the role of memory mechanisms and representations in imagining and planning.