Prospective memory: Effects of divided attention on spontaneous retrieval.

We examined the effects of divided attention on the spontaneous retrieval of a prospective memory intention. Participants performed an ongoing lexical decision task with an embedded prospective memory demand, and also performed a divided-attention task during some segments of lexical decision trials...

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Publicado en:Memory & Cognition Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 212 - 225
Autores principales: Harrison, Tyler, Mullet, Hillary, Whiffen, Katie, Ousterhout, Hunter, Einstein, Gilles
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Publicado: Springer Nature Feb2014
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        Memory
        Task performance
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        Information retrieval
        Research funding
        Effect sizes (Statistics)
        Repeated measures design
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