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Is it relevant? Influence of trial manipulations of prospective memory context on task interference
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Lourenço, Joana S. and Maylor, Elizabeth A. (2014) Is it relevant? Influence of trial manipulations of prospective memory context on task interference. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Volume 67 (Number 4). pp. 687-702. doi:10.1080/17470218.2013.826257 ISSN 1747-0218.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2013.826257
Abstract
Prospective memory (PM) research has often investigated if having an intention interferes with ongoing activities, but rarely by linking the intention to a particular context. We examined effects of trial-by-trial changes in whether the context (defined by colour) was relevant for the nonfocal PM task. The ongoing task involved speeded decisions about the position (left/right) of the upper-case letter in a pair, and the PM task consisted of pressing an additional key if the upper-case and lower-case letters were in a specified colour and the same letter. Trials switched between two colours either randomly or predictably in eight-trial blocks. We also manipulated the presence/absence of occasional same-letter pairs in the irrelevant context. Results showed higher cost of having a nonfocal PM task when ongoing stimuli matched than when they mismatched the target's colour. Moreover, cost for intention-irrelevant stimuli was minimized, though never eliminated, by blocking match/mismatch trials. These findings highlight the role that local changes in intention-related context play in task interference and support a view of monitoring as a flexible mechanism. Additionally, the study introduced a novel way of embedding intention-related events in the irrelevant context shortly before the occurrence of PM targets, with results tentatively suggesting that such events might impair target detection.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology | ||||||||
Publisher: | Psychology Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1747-0218 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 2014 | ||||||||
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Volume: | Volume 67 | ||||||||
Number: | Number 4 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 687-702 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/17470218.2013.826257 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
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