Gone but not forgotten: The effects of cancelled intentions on the neural correlates of prospective memory

West, Robert; McNerney, M. Windy; Travers, Stephanie

doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2006.09.004

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“…In the present work, spontaneous retrieval was assessed following instructions that the prospective memory task was finished, and therefore we predicted that participants would deactivate their intentions or otherwise "turn off" the responsiveness of the spontaneous retrieval mechanism to no-longer-relevant prospective memory cues (Marsh, Hicks, & Bink 1998;Scullin et al, 2009;West, McNerney, & Travers 2007). Although the younger adults showed no intention interference in this context (consistent with our previous work; Scullin et al, 2009), the older adults continued to retrieve their prospective memory intentions, as evidenced by the significant slowing on target trials relative to control trials.…”

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Prospective memory and aging: preserved spontaneous retrieval, but impaired deactivation, in older adults

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Prospective remembering is partially supported by cue-driven spontaneous retrieval processes. We investigated spontaneous retrieval processes in younger and older adults by presenting prospective memory target cues during a lexical decision task following instructions that the prospective memory task was finished. Spontaneous retrieval was inferred from slowed lexical decision responses to target cues (i.e., intention interference). When the intention was finished, younger adults efficiently deactivated their intention, but the older adults continued to retrieve their intentions. Levels of inhibitory functioning were negatively associated with intention interference in the older adult group, but not in the younger adult group. These results indicate that normal aging might not compromise spontaneous retrieval processes but that the ability to deactivate completed intentions is impaired.

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Prospective memory and aging: preserved spontaneous retrieval, but impaired deactivation, in older adults

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“…That is, our study was based on the same logic as previous studies focusing on the prospective component of PM (Einstein et al, 2005;Knight et al, 2011;ScuUin et al, 2009ScuUin et al, , 2011West et al, 2007). Participants responded to specific PM cues and, after the PM task had been completed, canceled, or suspended, these PM cues were interleaved in an ongoing task.…”

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“…The reason for the inconsistent findings obtained by West et al (2007) and Scullin et al (2009Scullin et al ( , 2011 might be manifold, as the studies also differ methodologically. However, the findings of PM cues not affecting performance after intention completion might be related to the strong context change between the PM task performance and the measurement of PM aftereffects in the Scullin et al paradigm.…”

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The failure of deactivating intentions: Aftereffects of completed intentions in the repeated prospective memory cue paradigm.

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2012

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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We used a newly developed experimental paradigm to investigate aftereffects of completed intentions on subsequent performance that required the maintenance and execution of new intentions. Participants performed an ongoing number categorization task and an additional prospective memory (PM) task, which required them to respond to PM cues that differed from standard stimuli in 1 particular visual feature. Although the feature defining the to-be-acted-upon PM cue changed in each block, the irrelevant PM cue of the previous PM task block was occasionally repeated in the subsequent block. In 4 experiments we found that performance in the ongoing task was substantially slowed for repeated PM cue trials compared to oddball trials, which also differed in a visual feature from standard stimuli but never served as PM cues. This aftereffect decreased as a function of delay after intention completion. These findings indicate that intentions can exhibit persisting activation even after they have been completed and may interfere with the execution of the new relevant task. Possible mechanisms and boundary conditions of this intention deactivation failure are discussed.

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“…At this point, the target cue would no longer stimulate spontaneous retrieval of the prospective memory intention, consistent with the absence of intention interference in the finished condition (Experiment 2). West, McNerney, and Travers (2007) also investigated the fate of prospective memories following instructions to forget cues. In their study, participants received a different prospective memory cue before each block of a semantic judgment task and were instructed to either perform the prospective memory task or to forget about it for that block.…”

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Evidence for spontaneous retrieval of suspended but not finished prospective memories

2009

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McDaniel and Einstein (2007) argued that prospective memories can be retrieved through spontaneous retrieval processes stimulated by the presence of a target cue. To test this claim, we investigated whether presenting a prospective memory cue during a task that did not require an intention to be performed spontaneously triggered remembering of that intention. In two experiments, participants performed an image-rating task in which a prospective memory task (to press the "Q" key when a target word appeared) was embedded. Then, participants were told that their intention was finished or suspended. Finally, participants performed a lexical decision task in which each target (and a matched control) word appeared. RTs were slower to target words than to control words when the intention was suspended but not when it was finished. These results suggest that target cues associated with suspended intentions can spontaneously trigger remembering but that finished intentions are quickly deactivated.

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Gone but not forgotten: The effects of cancelled intentions on the neural correlates of prospective memory

Cited by 46 publications

References 19 publications

Prospective memory and aging: preserved spontaneous retrieval, but impaired deactivation, in older adults

Prospective memory and aging: preserved spontaneous retrieval, but impaired deactivation, in older adults

The failure of deactivating intentions: Aftereffects of completed intentions in the repeated prospective memory cue paradigm.

Evidence for spontaneous retrieval of suspended but not finished prospective memories

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