ArticleJournal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS2014
Differential focal and nonfocal prospective memory accuracy in a demographically diverse group of nondemented community-dwelling older adults.
Article in Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06539403 (Thinking About Memory), which is not on this map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Thinking About Memory: How Confident Are You in Your Memory, and Does it Change With Age? Investigating Memory Ability and Confidence in Those Attending Memory Clinics.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Time-Based and Event-Based Prospective Memory in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Neuropsychology review · 2025Pooled it
- Early detection of cognitive impairment in the general population through a digital tool targeting the prospective memory. A pilot study.Annals of medicine · 2025Article
- How do the cognitive processes matter in the event-based preschoolers' prospective memory?Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Re-evaluation of psychometric evidence and update of normative data for the Test of Practical Judgment.The Clinical neuropsychologist · 2022Article
- Deficits in spontaneous and stimulus-dependent retrieval as an early sign of abnormal aging.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Retrospective metamemory monitoring of semantic memory in community-dwelling older adults with subjective cognitive decline and mild cognitive impairment.Neuropsychological rehabilitation · 2022Article
- Everyday functioning and cognitive correlates in healthy older adults with subjective cognitive concerns.The Clinical neuropsychologist · 2016Article
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Abstract
Although prospective memory (PM) is compromised in mild cognitive impairment (MCI), it is unclear which specific cognitive processes underlie these PM difficulties. We investigated older adults' performance on a computerized event-based focal versus nonfocal PM task that made varying demands on the amount of attentional control required to support intention retrieval. Participants were nondemented individuals (mean age=81.8 years; female=66.1%) enrolled in a community-based longitudinal study, including those with amnestic MCI (aMCI), nonamnestic MCI (naMCI), subjective cognitive decline (SCD), and healthy controls (HC). Participants included in the primary analysis (n=189) completed the PM task and recalled and/or recognized both focal and nonfocal PM cues presented in the task. Participants and their informants also completed a questionnaire assessing everyday PM failures. Relative to HC, those with aMCI and naMCI were significantly impaired in focal PM accuracy (p<.05). In a follow-up analysis that included 13 additional participants who successfully recalled and/or recognized at least one of the two PM cues, the naMCI group showed deficits in nonfocal PM accuracy (p<.05). There was a significant negative correlation between informant reports of PM difficulties and nonfocal PM accuracy (p<.01). PM failures in aMCI may be primarily related to impairment of spontaneous retrieval processes associated with the medial temporal lobe system, while PM failures in naMCI potentially indicate additional deficits in executive control functions and prefrontal systems. The observed focal versus nonfocal PM performance profiles in aMCI and naMCI may constitute specific behavioral markers of PM decline that result from compromise of separate neurocognitive systems.
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