biostudies-literatureUnknownJuncu SSouth Coast Doctoral Training PartnershipTo assist with missing person investigations, the public may be on the lookout during their everyday activities and alert the authorities if the person is encountered. In this Registered Report, participants encoded posters that included an image of a target person along with relevant, irrelevant, or no contextual information about that person. After viewing a poster, participants watched a video that included either the target or a plausible nontarget, using a new experimental paradigm that kept all other conditions of the encounter constant. Previous findings suggest contextual information could affect prospective person memory in several ways. If contextual cues are relevant, they could direct attention to targets and plausible nontargets without improving face recognition and hence havQuarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)17470218251323820https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC12432273biostudies-literatureContextual effects on prospective person memory.PMC12432273ES/P000673/1Ost JFitzgerald RJJuncu SBlank HfalseContextual effects on prospective person memory.To assist with missing person investigations, the public may be on the lookout during their everyday activities and alert the authorities if the person is encountered. In this Registered Report, participants encoded posters that included an image of a target person along with relevant, irrelevant, or no contextual information about that person. After viewing a poster, participants watched a video that included either the target or a plausible nontarget, using a new experimental paradigm that kept all other conditions of the encounter constant. Previous findings suggest contextual information could affect prospective person memory in several ways. If contextual cues are relevant, they could direct attention to targets and plausible nontargets without improving face recognition and hence hav2025-01-01T00:00:00Z2025 Feb2026-06-02T08:48:25.444Z2026-04-16T03:12:43.555ZS-EPMC124322733994535010.1177/17470218251323820