Mental construction of future events has been found to share cognitive resources with mental time travel into the past.

Attention is a cognitive resource that contributes to many mental functions.

But the amount of cognitive resources an individual has influence on how much older adults benefit from self referencing.

As an example, a student learning to read must use considerable cognitive resources and effort to decode print.

People have a limited amount of cognitive resources available.

This has several advantages such as having more cognitive resources available for other tasks and avoiding distraction.

That the ability to use language draws upon general cognitive resources and not a special language module.

In doing so, cognitive resources may be freed up to support efficient problem solving.

Each box in figure 1 indicates one cognitive resource.

The rational system is slow, however, and it requires a large amount of cognitive resources.