ICPS

2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021

Remembering What to Do When the Time Comes: The Effects of Offloading in a Complex Prospective Memory Task

Virtual · May 2021

Posters · Cognitive Psychology

  • Craig Fellers
    UCSC
  • Toshiya Miyatsu
    Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
  • Benjamin Storm
    University of California, Santa Cruz

Abstract

In a study of complex prospective memory, 128 participants learned medical information about dry eye. Participants who set reminders to contact the experimenter were more likely to remember to do so after a two-day delay than participants who did not; memory performance for the medical information did not significantly differ.

Memory