title: Event-based prospective memory for poorly attended events.
abstract: In the most frequently used paradigm for studying event-based prospective memory (PM, Einstein & McDaniel, 1990), participants perform an ongoing task and are asked to perform an additional task when a particular stimulus (the PM cue) is presented. In this study three experiments examined how PM performance depends on stimulus selection, which is a major process involved in executive task control according to current theorizing. Participants made semantic judgments about a target word accompanied by two nontargets (distracters). The target was indicated by its spatial position (Experiment 1) or color (Experiment 2). The findings indicated that PM performance was much poorer when the PM cue was irrelevant to the ongoing task, in spite of the fact that nontargets were processed semantically as shown in Experiment 3.
authors.affiliation: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
authors.forename: Ayelet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cohen-Servi
authors.forename: Nachshon
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Meiran
authors.forename: Yoav
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kessler
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D003118:Color Perception; D003463:Cues; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D006801:Humans; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D007600:Judgment; D011939:Mental Recall; D009949:Orientation; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011340:Problem Solving; D011601:Psychophysics; D011930:Reaction Time; D011932:Reading; D012660:Semantics