Psychological Development and Education ›› 2020, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (2): 138-145.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2020.02.02

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The Underlying Processing Mechanism of the Aftereffects on Prospective Memory: Evidence from Eye Movements

XIN Cong1, ZHANG Manman1, GUO Yingxiu1, GUO Yunfei2, CHEN Youzhen1   

  1. 1. School of Psychology, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350117;
    2. Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715
  • Published:2020-03-19

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Abstract: Prospective memory (PM) is the ability of remembering to perform an intended action in the future. The aftereffects of prospective memory is defined as the phenomenon that the completed intention has an influence on the performance of the ongoing task. Based on the repeated prospective memory target paradigm and visual search paradigm, the current study embedded a prospective memory task in a visual search task in which multi-targets would be presented in the display. A 2(condition)×5(trial type) mixed factorial design was adopted. In the salient condition, the PM target appeared in red font against a black background screen. In the non-salient condition, PM targets were presented in a white font against background. The results show that the reaction time of original PM target in the salient and non-salient conditions was slower than the control condition during the finished-PM phase, and the PM target being in front of the OT target was slower than the PM target being behind the OT target. In addition, the percentage of commission errors was low in all conditions. The eye movement data showed that there was no significant difference between the PM target being in front of the OT target and the PM target being behind the OT target in the non-salient condition; The quantity of fixations in the salient condition were more than the control condition, and the quantity of fixations in the PM target being in front of OT target were more than the PM target being behind the OT target. In addition, both the first and total fixation durations were no significant difference across different conditions and trail types. In sum, the results suggest participants would allocate cognitive resources to suppress the original PM target during the finished-PM phase, supporting the inhibition processing.

Key words: the aftereffects of prospective memory, spontaneous retrieval processing, strategic monitoring processing, inhibition processing, eye tracking

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