scholarly journals The age prospective memory paradox: Young adults may not give their best outside of the lab.

2010 ◽  
Vol 46 (6) ◽  
pp. 1444-1453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingo Aberle ◽  
Peter G. Rendell ◽  
Nathan S. Rose ◽  
Mark A. McDaniel ◽  
Matthias Kliegel
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Prospective Memory

scholarly journals Laboratory vs. naturalistic prospective memory task predictions: young adults are overconfident outside of the laboratory

Memory ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 592-602 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéphanie Cauvin ◽  
Christopher Moulin ◽  
Céline Souchay ◽  
Katharina Schnitzspahn ◽  
Matthias Kliegel
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Prospective Memory ◽  
Memory Task ◽  
Prospective Memory Task

scholarly journals Allowing brief delays in responding improves event-based prospective memory for young adults living with HIV disease

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (7) ◽  
pp. 761-772 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shayne Loft ◽  
Katie L. Doyle ◽  
Sylvie Naar-King ◽  
Angulique Y. Outlaw ◽  
Sharon L. Nichols ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Prospective Memory ◽  
Hiv Disease ◽  
Event Based ◽  
Living With Hiv

Implementation intentions and prospective memory in young adults

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel C. Howard ◽  
Mark A. McDaniel ◽  
Karin M. Butler
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Prospective Memory ◽  
Implementation Intentions

scholarly journals A-181 Comparing Virtual Reality and Analog Prospective Memory Performance

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 976-976
Author(s):  
Coldiron A ◽  
Smith L ◽  
Helphrey J ◽  
Sawyer J ◽  
Flores E ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Prospective Memory ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Memory Task ◽  
Prospective Memory Task ◽  
Within Subjects ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Prospective Memory Performance

Abstract Objective A virtual reality-based prospective memory task was designed to examine whether a virtual environment would allow for a deeper level of processing and aid prospective memory performance. The purpose of this study was to compare young adults’ performance on analog and virtual reality-based prospective memory tasks. Method Young adult college students (N = 40; ages 18–26) completed both analog and virtual reality prospective memory tasks in the Virtual Kitchen Protocol. Results A within-subjects analysis of variance found that participants performed better on the analog prospective memory task than in virtual reality, F(1,39) = 12.46, p = .001. Conclusions Results suggest that the virtual environment served as a source of distraction rather than a memory aid for young adults’ prospective memory ability. However, this added level of distraction may mimic everyday prospective memory settings better than traditional analog tasks, suggesting that virtual prospective memory tasks may be able to better assess everyday prospective memory abilities.

Does Cannabis use affect prospective memory in teenagers and young adults?

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. S305 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Bartholomew ◽  
S. Holroyd ◽  
T.M. Heffernan
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Prospective Memory ◽  
Cannabis Use ◽  
Teenagers And Young Adults

scholarly journals Revisiting the Age-Prospective Memory Paradox Using Laboratory and Ecological Tasks

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Wen Koo ◽  
David L. Neumann ◽  
Tamara Ownsworth ◽  
David H. K. Shum
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Working Memory ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Prospective Memory ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Cognitive Factors ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Community Dwelling Older Adults ◽  
Age Related Changes

Prospective memory (PM) is the ability to perform a planned action at a future time. Older adults have shown moderate declines in PM, which are thought to be driven by age-related changes in the prefrontal cortex. However, an age-PM paradox is often reported, whereby deficits are evident in laboratory-based PM tasks, but not naturalistic PM tasks. The key aims of this study were to: (1) examine the age-PM paradox using the same sample across laboratory and ecological settings; and (2) determine whether self-reported PM and cognitive factors such as working memory and IQ are associated PM performance. Two PM tasks were administered (ecological vs. laboratory) to a sample of 23 community-dwelling older adults (Mage = 72.30, SDage = 5.62) and 28 young adults (Mage = 20.18, SDage = 3.30). Participants also completed measures of general cognitive function, working memory, IQ, and self-reported memory. Our results did not support the existence of the age-PM paradox. Strong age effects across both laboratory and ecological PM tasks were observed in which older adults consistently performed worse on the PM tasks than young adults. In addition, PM performance was significantly associated with self-reported PM measures in young adults. For older adults, IQ was associated with time-based PM. These findings suggest that the age-PM paradox is more complex than first thought and there are differential predictors of PM performance for younger and older adults.

scholarly journals Task Importance Affects Event-Based Prospective Memory Performance in Adults with HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorders and HIV-Infected Young Adults with Problematic Substance Use

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 652-662 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Paul Woods ◽  
Katie L. Doyle ◽  
Erin E. Morgan ◽  
Sylvie Naar-King ◽  
Angulique Y. Outlaw ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Prospective Memory ◽  
Neurocognitive Disorders ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
Ongoing Task ◽  
Persons Living With Hiv ◽  
Task Requirements ◽  
Event Based ◽  
Hiv Associated Neurocognitive Disorders

AbstractTwo experiments were conducted to examine the effects of task importance on event-based prospective memory (PM) in separate samples of adults with HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) and HIV-infected young adults with substance use disorders (SUD). All participants completed three conditions of an ongoing lexical decision task: (1) without PM task requirements; (2) with PM task requirements that emphasized the importance of the ongoing task; and (3) with PM task requirements that emphasized the importance of the PM task. In both experiments, all HIV+ groups showed the expected increase in response costs to the ongoing task when the PM task’s importance was emphasized. In Experiment 1, individuals with HAND showed significantly lower PM accuracy as compared to HIV+ subjects without HAND when the importance of the ongoing task was emphasized, but improved significantly and no longer differed from HIV+ subjects without HAND when the PM task was emphasized. A similar pattern of findings emerged in Experiment 2, whereby HIV+ young adults with SUD (especially cannabis) showed significant improvements in PM accuracy when the PM task was emphasized. Findings suggest that both HAND and SUD may increase the amount of cognitive attentional resources that need to be allocated to support PM performance in persons living with HIV infection. (JINS, 2014, 21, 1–11)

scholarly journals Sleep-dependent prospective memory consolidation is impaired with aging

SLEEP ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth L F Leong ◽  
June C Lo ◽  
Michael W L Chee
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Prospective Memory ◽  
Memory Consolidation ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Categorization Task ◽  
Semantic Categorization ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Sleep Benefit

Abstract Study Objectives Existing literature suggests that sleep-dependent memory consolidation is impaired in older adults but may be preserved for personally relevant information. Prospective memory (PM) involves remembering to execute future intentions in a timely manner and has behavioural importance. As previous work suggests that N3 sleep is important for PM in young adults, we investigated if the role of N3 sleep in PM consolidation would be maintained in older adults. Methods 49 young adults (mean age±SD:21.8±1.61 years) and 49 healthy older adults (mean age±SD:65.7±6.30 years) were randomized into sleep and wake groups. After a semantic categorization task, participants encoded intentions comprising 4 related and 4 unrelated cue-action pairs. They were instructed to remember to perform these actions in response to cue words presented during a second semantic categorization task 12h later that encompassed either daytime wake (09:00-21:00) or overnight sleep with polysomnography (21:00-09:00). Results The significant condition x age group x relatedness interaction suggested that the sleep benefit on PM intentions varied according to age group and relatedness (p=0.01). For related intentions, sleep relative to wake benefitted young adults’ performance (p<0.001) but not older adults (p = 0.30). For unrelated intentions, sleep did not improve PM for either age group. While post-encoding N3 was significantly associated with related intentions’ execution in young adults (r=0.43, p=0.02), this relationship was not found for older adults (r=-0.07, p=0.763). Conclusions The age-related impairment of sleep-dependent memory consolidation extends to PM. Our findings add to an existing body of work suggesting that the link between sleep and memory is functionally weakened in older adulthood.

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