uture. Each of these conditions (except baseline) consists of three different levels named phases. Participants had to go through total eight levels- practice, baseline, past 1, past 2, past 3, future 1, future 2, and future 3. Here the baseline was no task condition; past condition 1, 2 and 3 were characterized by the concurrent task with retrieving memory of 10 years, 6 months and 1 month old respectively and future 1, 2 and 3 conditions were characterized by generating events that would occur after 1 month, 6 months and 10 years later along with the concurrent task. Each phase continued for 1 min. In the first two phases, participants responded only to the episodic buffer task (computer task) and in other phases they retrieved/generated memory (past/ future) along with the episodic buffer task. On each trial participants were presented with a TBR array (To be remembered array), a visual mask (a black & white hazy picture), a blank screen and finally a probe item. The TBR array consisted of four black consonants (against a white background) selected at random (without replacement) from the set of eight (so that no letter was repeated in each set of four). Each trial began with the presentation of a ready “+” signal (black, Arial font; 18 pt) for 500 ms, followed by the presentation of a to-be-remembered array of consonants in locations (2,000 ms). A 50 ms visual mask then replaced the array. A single probe item was then presented. The participants’ task was to indicate, by pressing keyboard keys (“z” for “YES”, “n” for “NO”), whether a probe item represented both a letter and a location that was present in the TBR array (see Figure 1 for a schematic illustration of a trial).