ISSN 1671-3710
CN 11-4766/R
主办:中国科学院心理研究所
出版:科学出版社

›› 2010, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (1): 10-18.

Previous Articles     Next Articles

Influencing Factors and the Mechanism of Time-based Prospective Memory

DONG Su-Fang; HUANG Xi-Ting   

  1. School of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
  • Received:2009-06-01 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2010-01-15 Published:2010-01-15
  • Contact: HUANG Xi-Ting

Abstract: Time-based Prospective Memory is the task of remembering to do something at some point in the future or after a specified time interval. Compared with the event-based Prospective Memory, time-based Prospective Memory needs more self-initiated and controlled attentional resources, and is influenced by the importance of the Prospective Memory task, age, the character of ongoing task, and time interval et al. Time-based Prospective is associated with the frontal lobe. Test-Wait-Test-Exit Model, and Attentional-Gate Model serve as the theoretical explanations for time-based Prospective Memory. However, its influencing factors as well as the mechanism, in particular the mechanism of neural research still needs further study.

Key words: time-based prospective memory, self-initiation, time-monitor, cognitive mechanism, neural mechanism