Prospective memory and aging: the effect of perceptual salience

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dc.contributor.authorCohen, Anna-Lisa
dc.contributor.supervisorDixon, Roger A.
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-11T22:43:06Z
dc.date.available2025-06-11T22:43:06Z
dc.date.issued1999
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Psychology
dc.description.abstractThe effect of perceptual salience on prospective memory (PM) performance was examined for three age groups. Young, young-old, and old-old adults completed a visual search task with embedded PM instructions. On each trial, participants indicated the position of a target letter in a letter string, unless either of two pre-specified letters (PM cues) were encountered. Each PM cue was associated with a specific response. Perceptual salience was manipulated by spatially displacing a single letter (i.e., PM cue, target, ordistractor). This manipulation modulated performance of the prospective component realizing that a PM response should be made) but not the retrospective component (recalling the correct response when a PM cue was encountered). Young adults successfully recalled a higher proportion of PM intentions than young-old and old-old adults. However, there were no significant differences between young-old and old-old PM performance.
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduate
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/22378
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Web
dc.titleProspective memory and aging: the effect of perceptual salience
dc.typeThesis

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