Prospective memory and frontal lobe function

Abstract

The study sought to examine the role of frontal lobe functioning in focal prospective memory (PM) performance and its relation to PM deficit in older adults. PM and working memory (WM) differences were studied in younger aged (n = 21), older aged (n = 20), and frontal injury (n = 14) groups. An event-based focal PM task was employed and three measures of WM were administered. The younger aged group differed from the other two groups in showing significantly higher scores on PM and on one of the WM measures, but there were no differences at a statistically significant level between the older aged group and the frontal injury groups on any of the memory measures. There were, however, some differences in correlations with a WM measure between groups. It is concluded that there are similarities and differences in the deficits in PM between older adults and patients with frontal lobe injury on focal as well as nonfocal PM tasks.

The interplay of intention maintenance and cue monitoring in younger and older adults’ prospective memory

“…In fact, older adults already showed lower PM performance than the younger adults in low demanding conditions (i.e., in the focal task with low-maintenance load). Similarly, although often with smaller effect sizes than in nonfocal tasks, several other studies also showed age differences in focal tasks (Neulinger, Oram, Tinson, O'Gorman, & Shum, 2016;Niedzwienska & Barzykowski, 2012;Reese-Melancon, 2013;Rendell et al, 2007; see also meta-analyses Kliegel et al, 2008;Ihle et al, 2013). Even though age differences were present in the nonfocal tasks, the appearance of clear age differences in focal tasks prevented the finding of a significant interaction of age and focality, since nonfocal tasks did not affect older adults to a greater extent than did focal tasks.…”

Abnormal Functional Connectivity of Resting State Network Detection Based on Linear ICA Analysis in Autism Spectrum Disorder

“…Its executive function includes cognitive activity, emotional activity, the ability to predict future results from current behavior (Alvarez and Emory, 2006 ; Lau, 2013 ; Watanabe et al, 2015 ). Meanwhile, it is related to human long-term memory in resting state (Neulinger et al, 2016 ). Hitherto, there have been several studies focusing on SFGdor of ASD (Assaf et al, 2010 ; Rudie et al, 2012 ).…”

Using Virtual Reality to investigate multitasking ability in individuals with frontal lobe lesions

“…Baddeley, 1986;Stuss and Benson, 1986;Elliott, 2003) and individuals who present with cognitive and behavioural impairment following damage to the PFC frequently present with a dysexecutive syndrome (Funahashi, 2001). Allied to EF is prospective memory (PM), remembering to perform an intended action in the future, a common element of many executive tasks (Ellis, 1996;Ellis & Freeman, 2008) and also supported by the PFC (Shallice and Burgess, 1991;Okuda, 1998;Neulinger, Oram, Tinson, O'Gorman & Shtum, 2016).…”