ArticleMemory & cognition2014
Prospective memory: effects of divided attention on spontaneous retrieval.
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- The interplay of intention maintenance and cue monitoring in younger and older adults' prospective memory.Memory & cognition · 2017Article
- Spontaneous prospective-memory processing: Unexpected fluency experiences trigger erroneous intention executions.Memory & cognition · 2016Article
- Prospective memory: a comparative perspective.Behavioural processes · 2015Review
- Dual pathways to prospective remembering.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2015Review
- Prospective memory and aging: evidence for preserved spontaneous retrieval with exact but not related cues.Psychology and aging · 2013Article
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Abstract
We examined the effects of divided attention on the spontaneous retrieval of a prospective memory intention. Participants performed an ongoing lexical decision task with an embedded prospective memory demand, and also performed a divided-attention task during some segments of lexical decision trials. In all experiments, monitoring was highly discouraged, and we observed no evidence that participants engaged monitoring processes. In Experiment 1, performing a moderately demanding divided-attention task (a digit detection task) did not affect prospective memory performance. In Experiment 2, performing a more challenging divided-attention task (random number generation) impaired prospective memory. Experiment 3 showed that this impairment was eliminated when the prospective memory cue was perceptually salient. Taken together, the results indicate that spontaneous retrieval is not automatic and that challenging divided-attention tasks interfere with spontaneous retrieval and not with the execution of a retrieved intention.
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