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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"prospective memory"”.
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The ecological validity of prospective memory experimentation
Prospective memory (PM) is the ability to remember and fulfill future intentions, a crucial ability in everyday life. Discrepancies between performance in standard laboratory tasks versus naturalistic tasks has led to translational concerns to everyday life. Validity concerns surrounding laboratory …
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Mindfulness meditation training and naturalistic prospective memory performance
… explore the relationship between mindfulness and prospective memory (i.e., the ability to remember to execute a future intention). To explore this relationship, students in either a mindfulness condition or vocabulary control condition were asked to complete 10 self-concordant academic tasks (both …
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The effect of unresolved interruptions on prospective memory
I investigated how memory for future intentions (termed prospective memory or PM) was impacted by interruptions, unresolved interruptions, and delays. The PM task was to shop for eight items within an environmental sustainability rating task. A comedy routine appeared after participants had rated …
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The relationship between visual attention and prospective memory
… current study examined the role of attention in prospective memory. Prospective memory refers to the ability to form an intention to do something in the future, such as email a colleague, and additionally remembering to do so at the appropriate moment. Theories of prospective memory retrieval …
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Determining the effects of emotion on prospective memory performance
Prospective memory is the ability to remember to complete future intentions. Throughout the study of prospective memory, the use of emotional stimuli tends to lead to contradictory effects. Some studies suggest that emotional stimuli, particularly positive stimuli, lead to better prospective memory …
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The Superiority Effect of Virtual Reality on Prospective Memory
Although failures of prospective memory have been linked to aviation accidents, prospective memory has not been integrated into pilot training or assessment. Virtual Reality (VR) offers ecologically robust flight environments for training and assessment of prospective memory, but the effects of VR, …
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Event-based prospective memory in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
Learning and memory seem to be particularly vulnerable to the effects of heavy prenatal alcohol exposure. Previous research has, however, been limited to the study of retrospective memory (i.e., episodic or declarative memory) in children with a history of prenatal alcohol exposure. Recently, …
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Exploring the Role of Prospective Memory in Location-Based Reminders
… task at a particular location. People use their prospective memory to remember future to-do tasks. However, the current design of LBRs fails to take advantage of human prospective memory theory. In this dissertation, I propose a framework connecting human prospective memory theory with LBRs. My …
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Don't forget to remember: motivation and environmental cues affect prospective memory performance
Prospective memory (PM) refers to remembering to fulfill previously formed intentions. While some intentions are self-interested, others are prosocial, and both are influenced by motivational forces. This study examined these relationships using a monetary incentive to moderate motivation, and …
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The effect of ecstasy/polydrug use on prospective memory and executive processes
… of this thesis was to examine the range of prospective memory and executive function deficits in ecstasy/polydrug users and the role of these processes in accounting for the observed prospective memory performance deficits. Using a variety of laboratory and self-report measures of …
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The Influence of Stereotype Threat on Prospective Memory in Middle to Late Adulthood
Prospective memory, memory to perform future intended actions, is an important component of independent living for older adults. The current study examined prospective memory performance in 120 adults (Young-Old; 45-64 years old and Old; 65 - 87 years old) using Virtual Week (Rendell & Craik, 2000; …
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Chemo brain and prospective memory in breast cancer patients: A mixed methods study
Some breast cancer patients report memory deficits after undergoing cancer treatment. This deficit has been given the term chemo brain. Patients who report such deficits usually complain about attention and concentration problems, such as forgetting to take their medication, or taking it twice, …
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Improving Self-Regulated Learning of Undergraduates through a Prospective Memory Intervention: A Pilot Study
… rehabilitation literature has found that prospective memory (PM) skill training has improved goal attainment in older adult and brain-injured populations. Due to the ongoing brain development supporting PM in emerging adults, cognitive rehabilitation approaches also may help improve …
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Improving Self-Regulated Learning of Undergraduates through a Prospective Memory Intervention: A Pilot Study
… rehabilitation literature has found that prospective memory (PM) skill training has improved goal attainment in older adult and brain-injured populations. Due to the ongoing brain development supporting PM in emerging adults, cognitive rehabilitation approaches also may help improve …
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Investigating the pursuit of prosocial goals among neurodivergent adults: a naturalistic prospective memory study
… in lab-based paradigms, in the field of prospective memory (PM), defined as the ability to remember and carry out intentions in the future. The current study (N = 62) employed a 2 (Group: Neurotypical vs. Neurodivergent) X 2 (Goal Type: Prosocial vs. Self-Interested) mixed factor design …
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Errorless Learning of Prospective Memory Tasks: An Experimental Investigation in People with Memory Disorders.
Prospective Memory (PM), or the ability to act upon delayed intentions, is cognitively complex as it requires a combination of mnemonic, attentional and executive abilities. PM tasks can be particularly challenging for people with cognitive impairment, and it is important to identify effective …
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An Analysis of Intention Formation as a Function of Prospective Memory in Air Traffic Controllers
<p>Prospective memory, or memory for future intents, is an important part of everyone's daily life. Air traffic controllers whose jobs are based in an environment that taxes their memory resources for extended periods of time rely on this type of memory. Controllers objectives often change based on …
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