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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Memory Studies

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  • Individuals manage delayed intentions using internal memory or external aids (e.g., diaries, smartphone alerts).
  • The decision-making process for routing intentions and its memory consequences remain incompletely understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the role of intention value in memory offloading strategies.
  • To explore the cognitive consequences of prioritizing high-value intentions for external storage.

Main Methods:

  • Three experiments were conducted, with two being preregistered.
  • Participants' intention offloading preferences and memory performance were assessed based on intention value.
  • Controlled conditions manipulated the availability of external memory stores.

Main Results:

  • Participants preferentially offloaded high-value intentions to external stores.
  • Offloading high-value intentions enhanced memory for both high- and low-value intentions.
  • A cognitive spillover effect was observed: offloading high-value content improved internal memory for low-value content.

Conclusions:

  • Value-based offloading influences intention routing and memory outcomes.
  • Cognitive spillover effects demonstrate reallocation of internal memory resources.
  • Prioritizing high-value information for external memory can impact the retention of lower-value information.