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  • Psychophysiology
  • Interoception Research

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  • Prospective memory (PM), or remembering future intentions, is known to be influenced by psychological stress.
  • The precise neurophysiological mechanisms linking stress, autonomic nervous activity, and PM retrieval remain unclear.
  • Interoceptive awareness, the perception of internal bodily states, is hypothesized to play a mediating role.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between cardiac reactivity, interoceptive accuracy, and prospective memory performance.
  • To explore whether autonomic nervous activity mediates the link between interoception and successful PM retrieval.
  • To differentiate the influence of cardiac signals on PM versus working memory.

Main Methods:

  • An event-based prospective memory task was employed, requiring participants to detect PM targets during a 2-back working memory task.
  • Heart rate was monitored to assess cardiac reactivity in response to PM target events.
  • Interoceptive accuracy was measured using a heartbeat detection task.

Main Results:

  • Individuals with superior prospective memory performance exhibited a greater heart rate increase upon PM target presentation.
  • Higher levels of interoceptive accuracy were significantly associated with better prospective memory task performance.
  • These cardiac and interoceptive effects were specific to prospective memory and not observed for working memory performance.

Conclusions:

  • Cardiac afferent signals appear to enhance prospective memory retrieval.
  • The facilitative effect of cardiac signals on PM is mediated by an individual's level of interoceptive accuracy.
  • This study highlights the crucial role of interoception in the cognitive processes underlying memory for future intentions.