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ArticleFrontiers in cognition2025

How chronotype, sleep-wake cycle, subjective time experience influence retrospective, and prospective memory functioning.

Marco Fabbri, Monica Martoni

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Marco FabbriDepartment of Psychology Renzo Canestrari, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Monica MartoniDepartment of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

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Abstract

Background: The sleep-wake cycle and chronotype are key contributors to memory consolidation. Emerging evidence also highlights their role in shaping the subjective experience of time, which, in turn, can influence cognitive performance, particularly memory. This study investigated how sleep-wake quality, circadian typology, and subjective time perception relate to failures in retrospective and prospective memory. Method: A total of 666 participants (73% female; M = 37.83 years, SD = 14.65) completed the reduced Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire (rMEQ), Mini-Sleep Questionnaire (MSQ), Prospective and Retrospective Memory Questionnaire (PRMQ), Subjective Time Questionnaire (STQ), and Results: Results indicated that evening-types reported later sleep and wake times, more pronounced sleep-wake disturbances, greater memory lapses, and stronger experiences of time expansion/boredom. Correlational analyses showed that both time pressure and time expansion/boredom were negatively associated with PRMQ scores, leading to increased memory errors. The regression models showed that memory performance was generally predicted by wake factor, time pressure and time expansion/boredom. Then, mediation models revealed that eveningness was associated with greater wake problems, which were positively related to altered time perception (i.e., time pressure and time expansion/boredom), which in turn predicted more frequent retrospective and prospective memory failures. Discussion: These findings suggest that circadian typology, wake-related disturbances, and subjective time perception interactively contribute to memory performance, and propose a model linking biological rhythms and temporal experience to memory functioning, suggesting a possible influence of attention and arousal.

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daytime sleepinessmorningness-eveningness preferenceprospective memoryretrospective memorysleep-wake cyclesubjective passage of timetime expansion/boredomtime pressure

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PMCPMC13281119

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