Open AccessHow Does Performing Demanding Activities Influence Prospective Memory? A Systematic Review
Author(s) -
Patrícia Francisca de Matos,
Diana Pereira,
Pedro Albuquerque,
Flávia Heloísa Santos
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
advances in cognitive psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.507
H-Index - 31
ISSN - 1895-1171
DOI - 10.5709/acp-0302-0
Subject(s) - prospective memory , systematic review , psychology , task (project management) , cognition , cognitive psychology , cognitive load , applied psychology , medline , political science , psychiatry , law , management , economics
This paper is the first systematic review on the role of ongoing task load in prospective remembering, which was conducted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA). Forty articles published between 1995 and 2020 were included. They evaluated prospective memory (PM) performance (i.e., the ability to remember to execute a delayed intention) in adult samples aged between 19 and 50 years old when the PM cue appeared under cognitively demanding conditions. The results revealed that people are more likely to fail to remember to perform a delayed intention at the appropriate circumstances or time in the future when their cognitive resources are taxed by demanding ongoing activities. We conclude the review by highlighting that the degree of working memory and executive resources seems to account for some of the discrepant findings and by proposing directions for future research.