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Why do we forget to take our medication? Prospective memory and aging | title | Why do we forget to take our medication? Prospective memory and aging |
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| start_date | 2022/09/20 |
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| schedule | 16h30 |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle de conférence |
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| summary | A fundamental aspect of goal-directed, intentional behavior entails the ability to plan and then to remember executing future activities, such as remembering to pass a message from school to parents, to take medication in time, or to add an attachment to an e-mail before sending it off. The interplay of cognitive abilities that constitute the process of “remembering to remember” is referred to as prospective memory (for overviews on different research areas see Kliegel, McDaniel & Einstein, 2008, Edited Book, Erlbaum). Prospective memory is an essential ability to meet everyday life challenges across the lifespan, constitutes a key element of developing autonomy and independence and is especially important in old age with increasing health-related prospective memory demands. Therefore, understanding mechanisms underlying prospective memory in old age has become a major effort in cognitive and developmental research. The present talk will review conceptual and empirical advances from our lab in understanding age differences and associated developmental mechanisms. Particularly, the role of meta-memory, how prospective memory is assessed in the lab and in everyday life and how it may be improved by training will be discussed. |
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| responsibles | Arleo |
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| submitted | published | | 2022/09/15 13:04 UTC |
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