Cost avoidance underlies decisions to use prospective memory reminders.

ABSTRACT: Recent evidence suggests that offloading demands on to external sources can improve the remembering of future plans (i.e., prospective memory). The purpose of the current study was to better understand the mechanisms by which participants choose to offload prospective memory demands. Participants formed the intention to later respond to either one (low load) or four (high load) prospective memory targets with or without the use of reminders. During reminder trials, participants could press the "reminder" key to be shown the learned targets in a "lookup table." The frequency of reminder checking was used to index the willingness to rely on external sources to support remembering. The utility of reminder checking was manipulated by varying the number of distractors presented in the lookup ta

SUBMITTER: Ball BH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12305806 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature