Hicks Jason L, Cook Gabriel I, Marsh Richard L
Louisiana State University, USA.
Am J Psychol. 2005 Spring;118(1):1-11.
Event-based prospective memory cues are environmental stimuli that are associated with a previously established intention to perform an activity. Such cues traditionally have been placed in materials that receive focal attention during an ongoing activity. This article reports a direct comparison of event-based cues that occurred either within the focus of attention or at the periphery of such attention. When the cue occurred outside focal attention, manipulating that cue changed event-based prospective memory. The identical manipulation had no effect on event-based responding if the cue occurred within focal attention. These results suggest that cue characteristics can compensate for attention being directed away from an aspect of an ongoing task that contains event-based prospective memory.
基于事件的前瞻性记忆线索是与先前确立的执行某项活动的意图相关联的环境刺激。传统上，此类线索被置于在正在进行的活动中受到焦点关注的材料中。本文报告了对基于事件的线索的直接比较，这些线索要么出现在注意力焦点内，要么出现在该注意力的边缘。当线索出现在焦点注意力之外时，对该线索进行操纵会改变基于事件的前瞻性记忆。如果线索出现在焦点注意力内，相同的操纵对基于事件的反应没有影响。这些结果表明，线索特征可以弥补注意力从包含基于事件的前瞻性记忆的正在进行的任务的某个方面转移开的情况。
