Dealing with prospective memory demands while performing an ongoing task: Shared processing, increased on-task focus, or both?

Dealing with prospective memory demands while performing an ongoing task: Shared processing, increased on-task focus, or both?

Prospective memory (PM) is the cognitive ability to remember to fulfill intended action plans at the appropriate future moment. Current theories assume that PM fulfillment draws on attentional processes. Accordingly, pending PM intentions interfere with other ongoing tasks to the extent to which both tasks rely on the same processes. How do people manage the competition between PM and ongoing-t...

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition Dealing With Prospective Memory Demands While Performing an Ongoing Task: Shared Processing, Increased On-Task Focus, or Both?

Effects of delay of prospective memory cues in an ongoing task on prospective memory task performance.

To address the mixed results reported in previous studies, the present experiments examined forgetting in prospective memory (PM) by manipulating the delay between the PM instructions and cue presentation in event-based PM tasks. PM performance was measured for delays of 2-20 min in Experiment 1 and for delays of approximately 1-10 min in Experiment 2. Experiment 2 included both focal and nonfo...

Deep Multi-Task Learning with Shared Memory

Neural network based models have achieved impressive results on various specific tasks. However, in previous works, most models are learned separately based on single-task supervised objectives, which often suffer from insufficient training data. In this paper, we propose two deep architectures which can be trained jointly on multiple related tasks. More specifically, we augment neural model wi...

Effects of practice, age, and task demands, on interference from a phone task while driving.

Experimental research on the effects of cellular phone conversations on driving indicates that the phone task interferes with many driving-related functions, especially with older drivers. Unfortunately in past research (1) the dual task conditions were not repeated in order to test for learning, (2) the 'phone tasks' were not representative of real conversations, and (3) most often both the dr...