Effect of covered cues on time-based prospective memory
In this study,to further understand the processes of time-based prospective memory,three ex-periments were conducted to investigate the influence of invisible cues on time-based prospective memory from different perspectives.The purpose of Experiment 1A was to investigate the performance differences of time-based prospective memory under different ongoing task cue conditions;Experiment 1B aimed to exam-ine the effects of cues in different interference task conditions on time-based prospective memory;Experi-ment 2 aimed to examine the effects of different cues from embed prospective memory task and ongoing task on time-based prospective memory.The results showed that:(1)Effective covert cues could promote time-based prospective performance.For covert cues suggesting the retrospective component of time-based prospective memory,the temporal cues which either hidden in the ongoing task or in the interfered task,significantly improved the performance of time-based prospective memory.(2)Cues appearing in the ongo-ing task could improve the performance of time-based prospective memory more than in the interfered task,indicating that the closer the cue was to the target time,the greater the facilitation effect was.(3)Cues of time-based prospective memory tasks could promote the performance of time-based prospective memory,while those of event-based prospective memory tasks could not.Our study supports the random walk model.
time-based prospective memorycovered cuesrandom walk modeltask paradigmtime monitoring