Dealing with prospective memory demands while performing an ongoing task: Shared processing, increased on-task focus, or both?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition Dealing With Prospective Memory Demands While Performing an Ongoing Task: Shared Processing, Increased On-Task Focus, or Both?

The Ability to Selectively Allocateattentional Demands on Walking During Secondary Cognitive and Motor Tasks in Elderly People With and Without a History of Falls

Objectives: The main goal of this studywas to determine the ability of elderly adults Abstract to selectively allocate attentional demands on walking during secondary motor and cognitive tasks. Methods & Materials: in this prospective three factors mixed design, 33 elderly adultswithout a history of falls and 23 elderly adults with a history of falls were asked to performtimed up and go test...

Too easy? The influence of task demands conveyed tacitly on prospective memory

Previous research suggests that when intentions are encoded, participants establish an attention allocation policy based on their metacognitive beliefs about how demanding it will be to fulfill the prospective memory (PM) task. We investigated whether tacit PM demands can influence judgments about the cognitive effort required for success, and, as a result, affect ongoing task interference and ...

Atypical Gaze Behavior in Children with High Functioning Autism During an Active Balance Task

Background. Unusual gaze behavior in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) was reported very early in the literature. Objectives. The current study examined gaze behavior in children with ASD and typically developing (TD) children while performing an active balance task on the Wii balance board. Methods: 8 children (male) diagnosed with high-functioning ASD and 9 TD children (3 female, ...

The Effect of Task Duration on Event-Based Prospective Memory: A Multinomial Modeling Approach

Remembering to perform an action when a specific event occurs is referred to as Event-Based Prospective Memory (EBPM). This study investigated how EBPM performance is affected by task duration by having university students (n = 223) perform an EBPM task that was embedded within an ongoing computer-based color-matching task. For this experiment, we separated the overall task's duration into the ...