Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 The Nature and Utility of the Temporally Extended Self -- 2 Language and the Self: From the "Experiencing I" to the "Continuing Me" -- 3 Owning Experience: Developing Subjective Perspective in Autobiographical Narratives -- 4 The Anticipated Self: Mother-Child Talk About Future Events -- 5 The Self: Elevated in Consciousness and Extended in Time -- 6 Personalizing the Temporally Extended Self: Evaluative Self-Awareness and the Development of Autobiographical Memory -- 7 Planning in 3-year-Olds: A Reflection of the Future Self? -- 8 Extending Self-Consciousness Into the Future -- 9 Binding the Self in Time -- 10 Episodic Memory: Essential Distinctions and Developmental Implications -- 11 The Child in Time: Temporal Concepts and Self-Consciousness in the Development of Episodic Memory -- 12 Levels of Consciousness of the Self in Time -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- Contributors
Summary
Human reasoning is marked by an ability to remember one's personal past and to imagine one's future. Together these capacities rely on the notion of a temporally extended self or the self in time. Recent evidence suggests that it is during the preschool p
