Strategic reminder setting for time-based intentions: Influence of metacognition, delay length, and cue visibility.
Time-based intentions, such as remembering to make a telephone call at a particular time or removing food from the oven after a delay, can be highly cognitively demanding. In everyday life, people often offload these demands to the external environment by setting alerts and reminders; however, this...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 53; no. 7; pp. 2237 - 2255 |
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Oct2025
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