Cohen, Anna-Lisa and Gordon, Aliza and Jaudas, Alexander and Hefer, Carmen and Dreisbach, Gesine (2017) Let it go: the flexible engagement and disengagement of monitoring processes in a non-focal prospective memory task. PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH-PSYCHOLOGISCHE FORSCHUNG, 81 (2). pp. 366-377. ISSN 0340-0727, 1430-2772
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Remembering to perform a delayed intention is referred to as prospective memory (PM). In two studies, participants performed an Eriksen flanker task with an embedded PM task (they had to remember to press F1 if a pre-specified cue appeared). In study 1, participants performed a flanker task with either a concurrent PM task or a delayed PM task (instructed to carry out the intention in a later different task). In the delayed PM condition, the PM cues appeared unexpectedly early and we examined whether attention would be captured by the PM cue even though they were not relevant. Results revealed ongoing task costs solely in the concurrent PM condition but no significant task costs in the delayed PM condition showing that attention was not captured by the PM cue when it appeared in an irrelevant context. In study 2, we compared a concurrent PM condition (exactly as in Study 1) to a PM forget condition in which participants were told at a certain point during the flanker task that they no longer had to perform the PM task. Analyses revealed that participants were able to switch off attending to PM cues when instructed to forget the PM task. Results from both studies demonstrate the flexibility of monitoring as evidenced by the presence versus absence of costs in the ongoing flanker task implying that selective attention, like a lens, can be adjusted to attend or ignore, depending on intention relevance.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | RETRIEVAL-PROCESSES; INTENTIONS; COST; INTERFERENCE; INSTRUCTIONS; PARADIGM; REMEMBER; CONTEXT; |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Psychology and Pedagogy > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Psychologie II (Allgemeine und Angewandte Psychologie) - Prof. Dr. Gesine Dreisbach |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Dec 2018 13:01 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Feb 2019 15:16 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/322 |
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