The Impact of Error-Consequence Severity on Cue Processing in Importance-Biased Prospective Memory.

ABSTRACT: Prospective memory (PM) enables people to remember to complete important tasks in the future. Failing to do so can result in consequences of varying severity. Here, we investigated how PM error-consequence severity impacts the neural processing of relevant cues for triggering PM and the ramification of that processing on the associated prospective task performance. Participants role-played a cafeteria worker serving lunches to fictitious students and had to remember to deliver an alternative lunch to students (as PM cues) who would otherwise experience a moderate or severe aversive reaction. Scalp-recorded, event-related potential (ERP) measures showed that the early-latency frontal positivity, reflecting the perception-based neural responses to previously learned stimuli, did not d

SUBMITTER: Krasich K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8527855 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature