Monitoring in laboratory and real-world tasks

Remembering to complete a future task, known as prospective memory (PM), often requires expending attention toward monitoring for the opportunity to complete that task. Current research indicates a lack of evidence for an individual’s ability or propensity to monitor during laboratory PM tasks having any real-world correlate. This study assessed the relationship between monitoring during two PM tasks and performance during the UTC Multiple Errands Test (UTC-MET), a naturalistic measure of executive function. A sample of 8 healthy older adults was compared to 9 older adults diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. While accuracy on an eye-tracking PM task was a significant predictor of UTC-MET task completions, no other significant relationships were observed between these tasks. This suggests that laboratory-based PM performance is predictive of task completions when multiple goals must be considered simultaneously but other relationships between PM and executive functions remain unclear.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Author dc:creator

• Nida, Allen L.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Clark, Amanda J.
• Warren, Amye; Shelton, Jill
• College of Arts and Sciences

• Prospective memory
• Cognition-- Psychological aspects

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• https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en

Language dc:language

English, eng

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholar.utc.edu/theses/456

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholar.utc.edu:theses-1598