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preparatory attentional and memory processes theory  

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  • A theory of event-based prospective memory (Smith, 2003; Smith et al., 2007), which states that "the performance of event-based tasks systematically requires the engagement of controlled preparatory processes. Specifically, preparatory attentional processes allow us to monitor the environment while considering the events occurring in it as potential prospective cues. As for the memory processes, they intervene in the recognition of prospective cues that must be discriminated from neutral events, as well as in the search in memory for the intention that follows this recognition" (Lecouvey et al., 2015, p. 209).

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  • PAM theory

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  • • Lecouvey, G., Gonneaud, J., Eustache, F., & Desgranges, B. (2015). Les grandes théories de la mémoire prospective: Vers une vision dynamique des processus cognitifs engagés lors du rappel programmé d’intentions. Revue de neuropsychologie, 7(3), 207–216. https://doi.org/10.3917/rne.073.0207

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  • • Smith, R. E. (2003). The cost of remembering to remember in event-based prospective memory: Investigating the capacity demands of delayed intention performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29(3), 347–361. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.29.3.347

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  • • Smith, R. E., Hunt, R. R., McVay, J. C., & McConnell, M. D. (2007). The cost of event-based prospective memory: Salient target events. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33(4), 734–746. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.33.4.734

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

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  • Frank Arnould

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