“…In Experiment 1, we set out to replicate the findings of McDonough and Gallo for past events, using a more elaborate control task, and also to determine whether retrieval monitoring is enhanced for future events. To anticipate, study ratings confirmed that both past and future elaborations contained distinctive features relative to the semantic control, and these features One clue to this question comes from studies in which the subjective features of real and imagined events, such as dreams, fantasies, or unfulfilled intentions, have been compared (e.g., Hassabis, Kumaran, & Maguire, 2007;Johnson, Foley, Suengas, & Raye, 1988;Kealy & Arbuthnott, 2003;McGinnis & Roberts, 1996). In each of these studies, subjects were asked to retrieve memories for past or imagined autobiographical events and then to rate these memories on numerous subjective features.…”