Habituation and consolidation of prospective memory over a week: An ERP study

Walter, Stefan Markus; Rey-Mermet, Alodie; König, Thomas; Meier, Beat (22 November 2011). Habituation and consolidation of prospective memory over a week: An ERP study (Unpublished). In: 7th Clinical Neuroscience Meeting. Bern. 22.11.2011.

Prospective memory (ProM) is the ability to remember and perform an intention in the future. If a prospective memory task is to be performed only once, it is episodic. If it is repeated, then it becomes habitual. Thus, with repetition, a task changes from episodic to habitual. The goal of this study was to investigate the transition from episodic to habitual prospective memory with event-related potentials (ERP). The ProM task was to respond to a target word which was embedded in an ongoing lexical decision task. 40 ProM trials were administered in each of two sessions that were separated by a week. The results revealed a behavioural consolidation effect with increased ProM performance after one week. The ERP-analyses showed that when the task became more habitual a difference occurred in a time-window between 450-650 ms post-stimulus in an ERP-component. In addition, a covariance analysis revealed that this transition is continued in the second session. These results demonstrate that the transition from episodic to habitual prospective memory is long-lasting and continuous.

Item Type:

Conference or Workshop Item (Poster)

Division/Institute:

07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Psychological and Behavioral Health
04 Faculty of Medicine > University Psychiatric Services > University Hospital of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy > Psychiatric Neurophysiology [discontinued]

UniBE Contributor:

Walter, Stefan Markus, Rey-Mermet, Alodie Denise, König, Thomas, Meier, Beat

Subjects:

100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

Language:

English

Submitter:

Anna Maria Ruprecht Künzli

Date Deposited:

02 Apr 2015 11:24

Last Modified:

29 Mar 2023 23:34

Uncontrolled Keywords:

neurology, psychology, prospective memory, habituation, consolidation, event-related potentials

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/65142

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