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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Ecological Psychology
  • Human Action Science

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  • Prospective memory (PM) involves remembering to perform actions in the future.
  • Current dominant theories (cue and capacity models) use computational accounts of attentional monitoring and spontaneous retrieval.
  • These models face limitations in explaining real-world PM performance.

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  • To propose an alternative, more parsimonious account of prospective memory performance.
  • To reframe prospective memory within ecological psychology principles.
  • To introduce the concept of nested affordances for understanding intention execution.

Main Methods:

  • Critiquing dominant dual-process theories of prospective memory.
  • Applying ecological psychology concepts, specifically affordances.
  • Drawing parallels with skill acquisition research in dynamic environments (e.g., sports).

Main Results:

  • Direct environmental perception facilitates the transition from present intention to future action.
  • Nested affordances provide a framework for scaffolding goal execution over time.
  • This ecological approach offers a simpler explanation for prospective memory success.

Conclusions:

  • Prospective memory can be understood as an extended action mediated by environmental information and affordances.
  • The proposed spatiotemporal specificity model offers a novel research direction.
  • Future research should explore the practical applications of ecological principles in prospective memory.