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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Prospective memory (PM) is crucial for daily functioning.
  • Research has increasingly focused on event-based PM, with less direct comparison to time-based PM.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To directly compare the ongoing task costs of focal and non-focal event-based prospective memory tasks with a time-based prospective memory task.
  • To investigate the effect of an external reminder on time-based PM costs.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments were conducted comparing event-based (focal and non-focal) and time-based PM tasks.
  • Ongoing task performance (response times) and PM accuracy were measured.
  • Clock checking frequency was monitored for time-based tasks.

Main Results:

  • PM accuracy was highest in focal event-based conditions.
  • Response times were slowest in non-focal event-based tasks, with similar times for focal event-based and time-based tasks.
  • Clock checking increased as the time-based target approached, indicating strategic monitoring.

Conclusions:

  • Non-focal event-based prospective memory tasks impose a greater speed cost on ongoing tasks compared to time-based prospective memory tasks.
  • While time-based tasks may be perceived as more difficult, they do not necessarily lead to the same level of disruption in concurrent task performance.