Negative prospective memory: Remembering not to perform an action
Negative prospective memory: Remembering not to perform an action
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DOI：
10.3758/s13423-012-0337-4
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发表时间：
2013-02-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Dodson, Chad S.
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作者：
Pink, Jeffrey E.;Dodson, Chad S.
有时，重要的是要记住不要执行某种操作，例如记住在不再需要时停止服用季节性过敏药物。当个人错误地执行预期反应时，实现这一目标的错误可能会涉及预期记忆委员会错误。在两个实验中，我们研究了注意力资源在防止对与习惯性预期反应相关的线索的预期记忆错误中的作用。在我们实验的第一阶段，参与者执行了一项前瞻性记忆任务，在此期间他们要么定期对前瞻性记忆线索做出反应，要么只对这些线索做出一次反应。在随后的前瞻性记忆任务中，经常对前瞻性记忆线索做出反应的参与者在注意力资源受到消耗时很容易犯错误。相比之下，分散注意力并不会增加对早期任务中未常规执行的提示的委托错误。这些数据表明，需要注意资源来抑制习惯性的前瞻性记忆反应，并且它们表明抑制失败是这些前瞻性记忆错误的原因。最后，我们建议对前瞻性记忆进行更广泛的定义，其中包括记住不执行任何操作。
Sometimes it is important to remember not to perform an action, such as remembering to stop taking seasonal allergy medicine when it is no longer needed. Mistakes in accomplishing this goal can involve prospective memory commission errors when individuals mistakenly perform a prospective response. In two experiments, we investigated the role of attentional resources in preventing prospective memory errors to cues that had been associated with a habitual prospective response. In Phase 1 of our experiments, participants performed a prospective memory task during which they either routinely responded to prospective memory cues or responded to these cues one time only. On a subsequent prospective memory task, the participants who had routinely responded to prospective memory cues were vulnerable to commission errors when their attentional resources were taxed. By contrast, dividing attention did not increase commission errors to cues that had not been routinely performed on an earlier task. These data indicate that attentional resources are needed to withhold making habitual prospective memory responses, and they suggest that inhibitory failures are a cause of these prospective memory errors. Finally, we suggest a broader definition of prospective memory that includes remembering to withhold performing actions.