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  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Prospective memory (PM) is crucial for daily functioning.
  • Debate exists on whether PM requires elaborate encoding or can be transient.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate if PM intention encoding must be strategic or can be perfunctory.
  • Examine the nature of encoding processes in PM tasks.

Main Methods:

  • Eight studies (N=680) used a lexical decision task with a PM cue (fruit words).
  • Participants reported their thoughts during encoding and task performance was assessed.
  • Bayesian analyses examined encoding durations and thought processes.

Main Results:

  • Many participants mind-wandered (42.9%) and engaged minimally (22.5%) with the PM task.
  • Specific exemplar encoding (34.5%) occurred perfunctorily, not strategically.
  • Specific-exemplar encoding improved performance without increasing monitoring costs.

Conclusions:

  • Intention encoding in PM shows significant variability.
  • Some aspects of PM encoding can be achieved incidentally, supporting the perfunctory view.
  • Specific exemplar encoding may be an efficient PM strategy.