ArticleMemory & cognition2017
The interplay of intention maintenance and cue monitoring in younger and older adults' prospective memory.
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- Differential contributions of working memory and inhibitory control to prospective memory detection and retrieval.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Effect of delay interval and cue focality on prospective memory.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Reminders eliminate age-related declines in prospective memory.Psychology and aging · 2025Article
- The effect of impulsive personality traits on prospective memory under different task importance conditions.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Outsourcing Memory to External Tools: A Review of 'Intention Offloading'.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2023Review
- Distinct monitoring strategies underlie costs and performance in prospective memory.Memory & cognition · 2022Article
- Individual differences in memory and attention processes in prospective remembering.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2022Article
- How Does Performing Demanding Activities Influence Prospective Memory? A Systematic Review.Advances in cognitive psychology · 2020Article
- Cognitive Aging and Tests of Rationality.The Spanish journal of psychology · 2019Article
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Abstract
The retention phase of a prospective memory (PM) task poses different challenges, including demands to store or maintain an intended action and to realize the right moment for action execution. The interplay of these processes in younger and older adults has not been explored so far. In this study, the authors examined the impact of maintenance load and task focality on PM in 84 younger and in 83 older adults. Results indicated that PM performance and ongoing task response times were strongly affected by maintenance load and age. However, a focality effect only emerged when maintenance load was low but not when attentional resources were deployed for maintaining a more demanding intention. These findings suggest that maintenance and monitoring requirements compete for similar attentional resources. Furthermore, maintenance load may affect postretrieval processes through its impact on working-memory resources, which can restrain the typical advantage of focal over nonfocal PM tasks.
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