title: Incidental and Intentional Memory: Their Relation with Attention and Executive Functions.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of the current study was to investigate the impact of gender and age on incidental and intentional memory in healthy participants and to explore the strength of the association of incidental and intentional memory with attentional and executive functioning.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total number of 47 participants underwent a driving simulation experiment and went through detailed neuropsychological testing. Incidental memory was assessed with a questionnaire that evaluated the memorization of information related to the driving simulator task while intentional memory was assessed using the Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-Revised and the Brief Visuospatial Memory Test-Revised.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The analysis revealed a greater impact of age on incidental as compared to intentional memory. Gender did not appear to have such an effect on either incidental or intentional memory. Finally, attentional and executive functioning were more strongly associated with incidental memory than the intentional memory measures that were utilized in the current study.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Ageing appears to affect incidental rather than intentional memory to a greater extent. In addition, attentional and executive functioning seem to play a more important role in incidental than intentional encoding and consolidation processes.
authors.affiliation: Cognitive Disorders/Dementia Unit, 2nd Department of Neurology, University of Athens, "Attikon" University Hospital, 12462 Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Dionysia
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kontaxopoulou
authors.affiliation: Cognitive Disorders/Dementia Unit, 2nd Department of Neurology, University of Athens, "Attikon" University Hospital, 12462 Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Ion N
authors.initials: IN
authors.lastname: Beratis
authors.affiliation: Cognitive Disorders/Dementia Unit, 2nd Department of Neurology, University of Athens, "Attikon" University Hospital, 12462 Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Stella
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fragkiadaki
authors.affiliation: National Technical University of Athens, School of Civil Engineering, Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering, 15780 Zografou, Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Dimosthenis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pavlou
authors.affiliation: National Technical University of Athens, School of Civil Engineering, Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering, 15780 Zografou, Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Yannis
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, 15784 Ilissia, Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Alexandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Economou
authors.affiliation: The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, 777 Washington Avenue, Memphis, TN, USA.
authors.forename: Andrew C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Papanicolaou
authors.affiliation: Cognitive Disorders/Dementia Unit, 2nd Department of Neurology, University of Athens, "Attikon" University Hospital, 12462 Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Sokratis G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Papageorgiou
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D056344:Executive Function / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D008297:Male; D061212:Memory, Episodic; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology*; D008875:Middle Aged
keywords: Incidental memory; Intentional memory; Memory impairment; Normal aging