The relationship between prospective memory and episodic future thinking in younger and older adulthood

Terrett, Gill; Rose, Nathan S.; Henry, Julie D.; Bailey, Phoebe E.; Altgassen, Mareike; Phillips, Louise H.; Kliegel, Matthias; Rendell, Peter G.

doi:10.1080/17470218.2015.1054294

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“…These beneficial effects were of similar magnitude in older and younger adults despite the existence of episodic future thinking deficits in older adults (89), but were reduced in heavy social drinkers, who also show episodic simulation deficits (91). Overall these findings both highlight a functional benefit of episodic future thinking for prospective memory and also suggest a link between the two forms of prospection, which is further supported by a study that revealed significant positive correlations between episodic future thinking and prospective memory abilities in both young and old adults (19). …”

Section: Functions Of Episodic Future Thinkingsupporting

confidence: 65%

Episodic future thinking: mechanisms and functions

Schacter

Benoit

Szpunar

2017

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

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Episodic future thinking refers to the capacity to imagine or simulate experiences that might occur in one’s personal future. Cognitive, neuropsychological, and neuroimaging research concerning episodic future thinking has accelerated during recent years. This article discusses research that has delineated cognitive and neural mechanisms that support episodic future thinking as well as the functions that episodic future thinking serves. Studies focused on mechanisms have identified a core brain network that underlies episodic future thinking and have begun to tease apart the relative contributions of particular regions in this network, and the specific cognitive processes that they support. Studies concerned with functions have identified several domains in which episodic future thinking produces performance benefits, including decision making, emotion regulation, prospective memory, and spatial navigation.

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Section: Functions Of Episodic Future Thinkingsupporting

confidence: 65%

Episodic future thinking: mechanisms and functions

Schacter

Benoit

Szpunar

2017

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

582

421

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“…In addition, Brewer and Marsh (2010) demonstrated that familiarity with the context of the ongoing task improved people's performance on a prospective memory task because it allowed them to better encode their future plan. Finally, there is some evidence that prospective memory and EFT draw on similar cognitive processes (Terrett et al, 2016). In the current experiments, it is reasonable to assume that the majority of participants were familiar with the context of a shopping mall and, therefore, would be able to plan ahead while encoding the prospective memory tasks.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Location-based prospective memory

O'Rear

Radvansky

2018

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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This study explores location-based prospective memory. People often have to remember to do things when in a particular location, such as buying tissues the next time they are in the supermarket. For event cognition theory, location is important for structuring events. However, because event cognition has not been used to examine prospective memory, the question remains of how multiple events will influence prospective memory performance. In our experiments, people delivered messages from store to store in a virtual shopping mall as an ongoing task. The prospective tasks were to do certain activities in certain stores. For Experiment 1, each trial involved one prospective memory task to be done in a single location at one of three delays. The virtual environment and location cues were effective for prospective memory, and performance was unaffected by delay. For Experiment 2, each trial involved two prospective memory tasks, given in either one or two instruction locations, and to be done in either one or two store locations. There was improved performance when people received instructions from two locations and did both tasks in one location relative to other combinations. This demonstrates that location-based event structure influences how well people perform on prospective memory tasks.

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“…Notably, the hypothesized preparatory function of future thinking has been demonstrated in the context of planning and problem solving (e.g., Arnold, Iaria, & Ekstron, 2016; Gerlach, Spreng, Gilmore, & Schacter, 2011; Spreng, Stevens, Chamberlain, Gilmore & Schacter, 2010), prospective memory (e.g., Terrett et al, 2016), decision-making (e.g., Benoit, Gilbert, & Burgess, 2011; Peters & Büchel, 2010), and emotion regulation (e.g., Taylor, Pham, Rivkin, & Armor, 1998; for review, see Schacter, 2012). However, despite Ingvar’s initial emphasis on the importance of constructing alternative behavior patterns, there remains very little investigation of the actual simulation of alternative versions of future events.…”

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confidence: 99%

Preparing for what might happen: An episodic specificity induction impacts the generation of alternative future events

2017

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A critical adaptive feature of future thinking involves the ability to generate alternative versions of possible future events. However, little is known about the nature of the processes that support this ability. Here we examined whether an episodic specificity induction – brief training in recollecting details of a recent experience that selectively impacts tasks that draw on episodic retrieval – 1) boosts alternative event generation and 2) changes one’s initial perceptions of negative future events. In Experiment 1, an episodic specificity induction significantly increased the number of alternative positive outcomes that participants generated to a series of standardized negative events, compared with a control induction not focused on episodic specificity. We also observed larger decreases in the perceived plausibility and negativity of the original events in the specificity condition, where participants generated more alternative outcomes, relative to the control condition. In Experiment 2, we replicated and extended these findings using a series of personalized negative events. Our findings support the idea that episodic memory processes are involved in generating alternative outcomes to anticipated future events, and that boosting the number of alternative outcomes is related to subsequent changes in the perceived plausibility and valence of the original events, which may have implications for psychological well-being.

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The relationship between prospective memory and episodic future thinking in younger and older adulthood

Cited by 46 publications

References 52 publications

Episodic future thinking: mechanisms and functions

Episodic future thinking: mechanisms and functions

Location-based prospective memory

Preparing for what might happen: An episodic specificity induction impacts the generation of alternative future events

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