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Discover LudwigThe phrase "prospective memory" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to the ability to remember to perform a task or action in the future. You can use it in a sentence like: "Prospective memory is essential in remembering to attend important meetings and appointments."
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We all experience the effects of unreliable prospective memory – forgetting a scheduled meeting or failing to buy milk as promised.
Prospective Memory (present or absent).
A prospective memory task was embedded in half the blocks.
Relative to lexical decision blocks with no prospective memory demand, sustained prospective memory replicated prior observations of frontal polar activation.
Undergraduate students were assigned a habitual prospective memory task, an event-cued and a time-cued episodic prospective memory task, and they completed questionnaires designed to assess problems with prospective memory in everyday life.
By keeping constant the prospective memory cue as well as the context of tasks, we aimed at putting the processes of solving prospective memory tasks into context.
Multiple cognitive processes are involved in prospective memory, and the degree to which automatic or effortful processes are involved may differ for different types of prospective memory tasks.
There are slight differences between episodic foresight and prospective memory.
Whereas episodic foresight is imagining a future event, prospective memory is remembering to do something.
In Hutten's study, people were either given a placebo, marijuana, or cocaine and asked to do a prospective memory activity.
They found a single dose of cocaine could enhance something called prospective memory, another future-forward type of memory.
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