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Event-based prospective memory and executive control of working memory (1998)
| Venue: | Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition |
| Citations: | 64 - 15 self |
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@ARTICLE{Marsh98event-basedprospective,
author = {Richard L. Marsh and Jason L. Hicks and Richard L. Marsh and Jason L. Hicks and Department Of Psychol},
title = {Event-based prospective memory and executive control of working memory},
journal = {Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition},
year = {1998},
pages = {336--349}
}
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Abstract
In 5 experiments, the character of concurrent cognitive processing was manipulated during an event-based prospective memory task. High- and low-load conditions that differed only in the difficulty of the concurrent task were tested in each experiment. In Experiments 1 and 2, attention-demanding tasks from the literature on executive control produced decrements in prospective memory. In Experiment 3, attention was divided by different loads of articulatory suppression that did not ultimately lead to decrements in prospective memory. A high-load manipulation of a visuospatial task requiring performance monitoring resulted in worse prospective memory in Experiment 4, whereas in Experiment 5 a visuospatial task with little monitoring did not. Results are discussed in terms of executive functions, such as planning and monitoring, that appear to be critical to successful event-based prospective memory. Successfully completing an intended action in the future depends on a type of remembering that has been labeled prospective memory. Thus, successful prospective memory requires remembering to remember. As a cognitive con-struct, however, prospective memory is less monolithic than
Keyphrases
executive control prospective memory event-based prospective memory visuospatial task cognitive con-struct concurrent cognitive processing low-load condition articulatory suppression successful prospective memory performance monitoring worse prospective memory successful event-based prospective memory different load executive function little monitoring attention-demanding task high-load manipulation event-based prospective memory task concurrent task intended action
