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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience of Aging

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  • Prospective memory (PM) is crucial for daily functioning and often declines with age.
  • Implementation intentions (IIs) are effective encoding strategies for enhancing older adults' PM.
  • The moderating role of cue type (event vs. time) and visualization on IIs' age benefits requires further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To determine if mentally visualizing task completion enhances age-related benefits of implementation intentions.
  • To examine whether event-based versus time-based cues moderate the effectiveness of implementation intentions.
  • To compare different strategy conditions for improving prospective memory in younger and older adults.

Main Methods:

  • 125 younger and 125 older adults were randomly assigned to one of five conditions: Statement Only, Imagine in Game, Statement and Imagine Combined, Imagine in Daily Life, or Control.
  • Participants formed prospective memory intentions using different strategy variations.
  • Event-based and time-based prospective memory tasks were administered to assess performance.

Main Results:

  • Implementation intentions, both alone and combined with visualization, significantly enhanced older adults' event-based PM.
  • The combination of statement and visualization yielded the greatest reduction in age-related differences for event-based tasks.
  • Neither strategy significantly improved time-based PM, indicating cue type as a moderator.

Conclusions:

  • Rehearsing implementation intentions with visualization is optimally effective for enhancing event-based prospective memory in late adulthood.
  • The type of prospective memory cue significantly moderates the age-related benefits of implementation intention strategies.
  • Findings can inform interventions aimed at improving prospective memory function in older adults.