BACKGROUND: Researchers in healthcare have begun to investigate interruptions
extensively, given evidence for the adverse effects of work interruptions in other domains …

Forgetting to carry out an intention as planned can have serious consequences in everyday
life. People sometimes even forget intentions that they consider as very important. Here, we …

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 …

Planning ahead has become an essential part of individuals' work and private lives, and
might involve scheduling business meetings, making appointments with a dentist or …

Human performance in complex multiple-task environments depends critically on the
interplay between cognitive control and cognitive capacity. In this paper we propose a …

Differences in the amount and availability of cognitive resources may be responsible for age‐
related differences in event‐based prospective memory tasks. We hypothesised that a …

Holding an intention often interferes with other ongoing activities, indicating that resource-
demanding processes are involved in maintaining the intention and noticing the appropriate …

In prospective memory tasks different kinds of load can occur. Adding a prospective memory
task can impose a load on ongoing task performance. Adding ongoing task load (OTL) can …

Remembering to execute pre-defined intentions at the appropriate time in the future is
typically referred to as Prospective Memory (PM). Studies of PM showed that distinct …

It has recently been shown that the mere presence of one's own smartphone on the desk
impairs working memory performance. The aim of this study was to follow up on this …