Taken together with the studies considered earlier in this section, we conclude that studies of remembering the past and imagining the future can potentially inform our under- standing of the relation between memory and imagination, independent of temporal factors (cf., Eacott and Easton, 2012), but can also inform our understanding of mental time travel or chronesthesia, when possible differences between memory and imagination are held constant. However, distinguishing between these factors requires careful experimental designs that precisely target specific processes of interest. Simple comparisons between remembering the past and imagining the future cannot alone disentangle the contributions of temporal and non-temporal factors.