APS

31st APS Annual Convention · 2019

Using Big Data to Understand Memory and Prospection

Washington, DC · May 2019

Poster · Cross-Cutting Theme Poster - Artificial Intelligence and Psychological Science

  • Robert Thorstad
    Emory University
  • Phillip Wolff
    Emory University

Abstract

We use methods from machine learning to "excavate" mental processes from web blogs and observe that imagining the future and remembering the past involve different mental operations. Our findings contrast with those based on neuroimaging, which suggest the two kinds of thinking share the same processes.

Big Data

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