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Effects of cue focality on the neural mechanisms of prospective memory: A meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies.
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- Where is the "where" in the brain? A meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies on spatial cognition.Human brain mapping · 2019Pooled it
- The functional neuroanatomy of event-based and time-based prospective memory, and its improvement.Communications biology · 2026Trial
- The transfer effects of executive function training on prospective memory in children with learning difficulties: a longitudinal study.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Early detection of cognitive impairment in the general population through a digital tool targeting the prospective memory. A pilot study.Annals of medicine · 2025Article
- Incentives and practice improve prospective memory performance in older adults.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2025Article
- Alpha-Oscillatory Current Application Impacts Prospective Remembering Through Strategic Monitoring.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- Reminders eliminate age-related declines in prospective memory.Psychology and aging · 2025Article
- Prestimulus functional connectivity reflects attention orientation in a prospective memory task: A magnetoencephalographic (MEG) study.PloS one · 2025Article
- A Method for Multimodal IVA Fusion Within a MISA Unified Model Reveals Markers of Age, Sex, Cognition, and Schizophrenia in Large Neuroimaging Studies.Human brain mapping · 2024Article
- Further clarification of cognitive processes of prospective memory in schizophrenia by comparing eye-tracking and ecologically-valid measurements.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- The deficient cue monitoring and the facilitating effect of prosocial intention on prospective memory in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2023Article
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- Longitudinal declines in event-based, but not time-based, prospective memory among community-dwelling older adults.Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition · 2022Article
- From retrospective to prospective memory research: a framework for investigating the deactivation of intentions.Cognitive processing · 2021Review
- Future and past autobiographical memory in persons with HIV disease.Neuropsychology · 2021Article
- Wait a second . . . Boundary conditions on delayed responding theories of prospective memory.Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition · 2021Article
- One-year stability of prospective memory symptoms and performance in aging and HIV disease.Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology · 2020Article
- How Does Performing Demanding Activities Influence Prospective Memory? A Systematic Review.Advances in cognitive psychology · 2020Article
- Age-related changes in neural mechanisms of prospective memory.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2018Article
- Exercise and Prospective Memory.Journal of lifestyle medicine · 2018Review
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Abstract
Remembering to execute pre-defined intentions at the appropriate time in the future is typically referred to as Prospective Memory (PM). Studies of PM showed that distinct cognitive processes underlie the execution of delayed intentions depending on whether the cue associated with such intentions is focal to ongoing activity processing or not (i.e., cue focality). The present activation likelihood estimation (ALE) meta-analysis revealed several differences in brain activity as a function of focality of the PM cue. The retrieval of intention is supported mainly by left anterior prefrontal cortex (Brodmann Area, BA 10) in nonfocal tasks, and by cerebellum and ventral parietal regions in focal tasks. Furthermore, the precuneus showed increased activation during the maintenance phase of intentions compared to the retrieval phase in nonfocal tasks, whereas the inferior parietal lobule showed increased activation during the retrieval of intention compared to maintenance phase in the focal tasks. Finally, the retrieval of intention relies more on the activity in anterior cingulate cortex for nonfocal tasks, and on posterior cingulate cortex for focal tasks. Such focality-related pattern of activations suggests that prospective remembering is mediated mainly by top-down and stimulus-independent processes in nonfocal tasks, whereas by more automatic, bottom-up, processes in focal tasks.
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