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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Prospective memory (PM) retrieval involves spontaneous processes.
  • Two key theories are the familiarity view and the discrepancy-plus-search view.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the underlying mechanisms of spontaneous prospective memory retrieval.
  • To differentiate between the predictive power of the familiarity and discrepancy-plus-search accounts.

Main Methods:

  • Participants completed a prospective memory task embedded within an anagram-solving activity.
  • Anagram difficulty (easy/difficult) was manipulated orthogonally for targets and nontargets to elicit discrepancy.

Main Results:

  • PM performance was significantly higher when target anagrams mismatched the difficulty of nontarget anagrams.
  • This finding supports the discrepancy-plus-search view over the familiarity view.

Conclusions:

  • Spontaneous prospective memory retrieval is driven by discrepancy detection.
  • Mismatched processing difficulty serves as a critical cue for prospective memory target identification.