scholarly journals Implementation Intentions Improve Prospective Memory and Inhibition Performances in Older Adults: The Role of Visualization

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 640-652 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Burkard ◽  
Lucien Rochat ◽  
Joëlle Emmenegger ◽  
Anne-Claude Juillerat Van der Linden ◽  
Gabriel Gold ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Prospective Memory ◽  
Implementation Intentions

scholarly journals Fluid mechanics moderate the effect of implementation intentions on a health prospective memory task in older adults

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Susanne Brom ◽  
Katharina Marlene Schnitzspahn ◽  
Marlen Melzer ◽  
Franziska Hagner ◽  
Anka Bernhard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Fluid Mechanics ◽  
Prospective Memory ◽  
Implementation Intentions ◽  
Memory Task ◽  
Prospective Memory Task

scholarly journals Age differences in strategic reminder setting and the compensatory role of metacognition

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Scarampi ◽  
Sam Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Prospective Memory ◽  
Age Differences ◽  
Metacognitive Knowledge ◽  
Memory Decline ◽  
Impaired Performance ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Cognitive Offloading

Previous research has shown that older adults can have difficulty remembering to fulfil delayed intentions. In the present study, we explored whether age differences in prospective memory are affected when participants are permitted to set reminders to help them remember. Furthermore, we examined whether metacognition can influence the use of such strategies and help older adults compensate for age-related memory decline. In this pre- registered study (N = 88) we administered a computerised task requiring a sample of older (aged 65-84) and younger (aged 18-30) participants to remember delayed intentions for a brief period, manipulating the possibility of setting reminders to create an external cue. Performance of the older group was significantly poorer than the younger group. Moreover, older adults were overconfident in their memory abilities and did not fully compensate for impaired performance, even when strategic reminder-setting was permitted. These findings suggest that older adults possess limited metacognitive knowledge about their prospective memory limits and may not fully utilise cognitive offloading strategies to compensate for memory decline.

scholarly journals Investigating Everyday Prospective Memory in Younger and Older Couples

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 561-562
Author(s):  
Tabea Meier ◽  
Zilla Huber ◽  
Matthias Kliegel ◽  
Andrea Horn ◽  
Maximilian Haas
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Prospective Memory ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Romantic Partners ◽  
Older Couples ◽  
Moderating Factors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Individual Concepts ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Daily events are not simply individual concepts, but shared by the social environment we live in. The present study investigates the role of romantic partners in the co-regulation of cognitive functioning by the example of prospective memory (PM), the ability to remember and correctly execute future intentions. In this context, we examined the impact of social proximity (i.e., physical closeness and psychological intimacy) on interpersonal regulation. Over the course of 21 days, 64 younger couples (18-33 years) and 52 couples of older adults (57-87 years) completed an ambulatory assessment comprising a daily pseudo-randomized PM task. Results reveal that couples’ PM performance was higher for younger than for older participants. Further, dyadic PM was correlated with psychological intimacy for both age groups, but the impact of time spent together on intimacy and PM performance, respectively, was stronger in older adults. Possible moderating factors and explanations for these findings will be discussed.

Younger and older adults’ prospective memory: the role of delay task difficulty

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-200
Author(s):  
Alison M. O’Connor ◽  
Karen L. Campbell ◽  
Caitlin E.V. Mahy
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Prospective Memory ◽  
Task Difficulty ◽  
Delay Task

The role of time-monitoring behaviour in time-based prospective memory performance in younger and older adults

Memory ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-48
Author(s):  
Giovanna Mioni ◽  
Simon Grondin ◽  
Skye N. McLennan ◽  
Franca Stablum
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Prospective Memory ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Prospective Memory Performance

scholarly journals Prospection and goals in health aging

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leann K. Lapp
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Prospective Memory ◽  
Healthy Aging ◽  
Implementation Intentions ◽  
Cognitive Strategies ◽  
Cognitive Domain ◽  
Future Scenarios ◽  
Episodic Future Thinking ◽  
Future Thinking ◽  
Action Execution

The focus of this dissertation is on future prospection and goals in healthy aging. More broadly, this dissertation is contextualized within a particular theoretical framework that proposes that some of the cognitive decline associated with aging reflects adaptive changes in motivation and resource allocation (Hess, 2014). We used prospection as the cognitive domain within which to explore these motivational changes. In particular, we looked at a subtype of prospection known as episodic future thinking, which is concerned with how individuals imagine future scenarios, and what effects this might have on behaviour. Whereas the first experiment took up questions about motivational influences on the nature and bounds of future thinking deficits in older adults, the second experiment tested hypotheses about the adaptive function of future thinking. Specifically, episodic future thinking is often presumed to be adaptive for planning and successful action execution. Using prospective memory as a platform, we tested the idea that episodic future thinking can facilitate goal achievement, specifically in older adults. In the first experiment, a cue-word paradigm, with words chosen to reflect age-relevant goal domains, was used to prompt the imagination of future scenarios. The results from the first experiment suggest that contrary to predictions, goal activation does not affect level of episodic detail in future thinking. However, phenomenological characteristics were modulated, with younger adults showing more sensitivity than older adults. In the second experiment, participants employed different cognitive strategies – one of which included future thinking – in a gold standard test of prospective memory. The results from the second experiment failed to find episodic future thinking a helpful strategy and did not replicate previous work demonstrating a beneficial effect of another commonly used strategy, implementation intentions, which was used for comparison. Nonetheless, secondary analyses suggest that individual differences in strategy preference may be critical to consider before ruling out the utility of episodic future thinking. The results from these experiments contribute to a growing literature on motivation-cognition interactions across the lifespan, and suggest promising future directions regarding research into motivation, prospection, and healthy aging.

make a telephone call once a day for 5 days when they the two paradigms. Specifically, the exact motoric re-associated the activity with other routine daily events quirements of many naturally occurring intentions (so-called "conjunction" cues) than when internal or (e.g., "buy birthday present") may not be sufficiently other external cues (e.g., diaries) were used. The exact well specified at encoding (or throughout the role of daily structure in the fulfilment of delayed retention interval), to allow the representation of these intention tasks in young and older adults remains to be activities to benefit from the kind of preparatory established, however, particularly as Maylor's study did processing that we have argued supports the not include a comparison of the use and effectiveness representation of more well-defined (laboratory-based) of conjunction cues between these two age groups. It actions. Indeed, not all naturally occurring intentions is interesting to note in this regard that an attempt has involve action-based responses. Some of the activities been made to enhance older adults' prospective memory generated by participants in the prospective and performance in a laboratory setting by using tasks that retrospective fluency tasks, for example, could be are intended to mimic the richness and structure of daily classified as involving primarily verbal responses life events (e.g., Rendell & Craik, 2000). Age-related (e.g., to have a conversation with someone or to pass declines have still been obtained under these conditions, on a message), while others represent purely thought-however, perhaps because the tasks are not readily able based or cognitive tasks (e.g., "choose holiday to capture or recreate the familiarity and personal destination"). The exact role of preparatory motoric relevance of the individuals' own routines. processing in successful prospective remembering remains to be established, however, as laboratory Intention-superiority effects for naturally studies of the ISE have typically used experimenter-occurring and laboratory activities initiated retrieval, which removes the need for participants to remember to carry out the actions for The current findings reveal a clear age-associated themselves when a designated retrieval context impairment in the ability to access naturally occurring arrives. intentions in a speeded fluency task undertaken during the retention interval between intention formation and Conclusion completion. This is in contrast to the findings of Freeman and Ellis (in press-b), which demonstrated an equivalent In summary, this study revealed a clear age-related de-advantage for to-be-enacted laboratory-based actions cline in the ability to access intention representations over actions not intended for enactment in young and prior to completion, with more intended activities failing healthy older adults. We have argued elsewhere (e.g., to come to mind in the prospective fluency task for older Freeman & Ellis, in press-a) that there may be similarities adults than for young adults. There was no apparent between the advantage for to-be-enacted laboratory-age difference in the inaccessibility (or inhibition) of based actions and the advantage that is frequently already completed intentions, however, with both age observed for verbally presented action words that have groups demonstrating evidence of an intention-been enacted during encoding (the subject-performed completion effect. Despite reduced intention task effect; Cohen, 1981). More specifically, the accessibility during the retention interval, older adults intention-superiority effect for simple motor actions reported having carried out more of their intended intended for enactment after a short delay might reflect activities during the week than did young adults. the operation of covert motoric or SPT-type encoding Interestingly, this appeared to be the case primarily for or rehearsal operations aimed at preparing these actions intentions for which no specific retrieval aids had been for imminent execution. These could include operations used. One possibility is that older adults may for setting the parameters of the action schema to be compensate for impaired intention accessibility by executed in terms of its duration, direction, and force. relying more on the ongoing sequence of daily routine The absence of an age difference in the accessibility of events to support intention retrieval and execution. This laboratory-based intentions mirrors the finding of is consistent with the observation of an age-related reduced age-related declines in memory for SPTs and increase in the temporal organization of activities pro-suggests that covert motoric processing may be duced in the prospective fluency task. In line with this, undertaken relatively automatically for this type of while there was a correlation between intention acces-material. sibility and intention completion in young adults, sug-The apparent discrepancy between age differences gesting a role for the intention-superiority effect in in the ISE for naturally occurring and experimental prospective memory performance in this population, intentions might therefore reflect a fundamental there was no evidence of this relationship among older difference in the nature of the activities involved in adults.

2003 ◽  
pp. 34-34
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Retention Interval ◽  
Prospective Memory ◽  
Age Difference ◽  
Superiority Effect ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Fluency Task
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