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The effects of age, enactment, and cue-action relatedness on memory for intentions in the Virtual Week task

The effects of age, enactment, and cue-action relatedness on memory for intentions in the Virtual... The current study investigated the influence of encoding modality and cue-action relatedness on prospective memory (PM) performance in young and older adults using a modified version of the Virtual Week task. Participants encoded regular and irregular intentions either verbally or by physically performing the action during encoding. For half of the intentions there was a close semantic relation between the retrieval cue and the intended action, while for the remaining intentions the cue and action were semantically unrelated. For irregular tasks, both age groups showed superior PM for related intentions compared to unrelated intentions in both encoding conditions. While older adults retrieved fewer irregular intentions than young adults after verbal encoding, there was no age difference following enactment. Possible mechanisms of enactment and relatedness effects are discussed in the context of current theories of event-based PM. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition Taylor & Francis

The effects of age, enactment, and cue-action relatedness on memory for intentions in the Virtual Week task

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Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Copyright
Copyright 2012 Psychology Press, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business
ISSN
1744-4128
eISSN
1382-5585
DOI
10.1080/13825585.2011.638977
pmid
22221208
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Abstract

The current study investigated the influence of encoding modality and cue-action relatedness on prospective memory (PM) performance in young and older adults using a modified version of the Virtual Week task. Participants encoded regular and irregular intentions either verbally or by physically performing the action during encoding. For half of the intentions there was a close semantic relation between the retrieval cue and the intended action, while for the remaining intentions the cue and action were semantically unrelated. For irregular tasks, both age groups showed superior PM for related intentions compared to unrelated intentions in both encoding conditions. While older adults retrieved fewer irregular intentions than young adults after verbal encoding, there was no age difference following enactment. Possible mechanisms of enactment and relatedness effects are discussed in the context of current theories of event-based PM.

Journal

Aging Neuropsychology and CognitionTaylor & Francis

Published: Sep 1, 2012

Keywords: Prospective memory; Aging; Cognition; Enactment; Relatedness; Intentions

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