The majority of studies that have investigated the effects of healthy aging on cognition have
focused on age-related differences in voluntary and deliberately engaged cognitive …

According to the multiprocess framework, the cognitive system can support prospective
memory (PM) retrieval through two general pathways. One pathway depends on top–down …

The ability to remember to execute delayed intentions is referred to as prospective memory.
Previous theoretical and empirical work has focused on isolating whether a particular …

An implementation intention encoding, one that specifies the concrete situation that is
appropriate for initiating an intended action and links that situational cue to the intended …

The present research examines individual differences in intention initiation. State-compared
to action-oriented persons show an intention superiority effect for the cognitive …

A current focus in the prospective memory literature is the extent to which a prospective
memory task (remembering to perform a future action) interferes with ongoing activities …

Previous research has established that people vary in action orientation, a tendency toward
decisiveness and initiative, versus state orientation, a tendency toward indecisiveness and …

Prospective memory research almost exclusively examines remembering to execute an
intention, but the ability to forget completed intentions may be similarly important. We had …

Prospective remembering is partially supported by cue-driven spontaneous retrieval
processes. We investigated spontaneous retrieval processes in younger and older adults by …

An intention stored in prospective memory (PM) for later execution can be retrieved either
strategically through preparatory attentional processes such as active monitoring for PM …