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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: McDaniel MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4398313 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Psychological science 20130801 9
Identifying the processes by which people remember to execute an intention at an appropriate moment (prospective memory) remains a fundamental theoretical challenge. According to one account, top-down attentional control is required to maintain activation of the intention, initiate intention retrieval, or support monitoring. A diverging account suggests that bottom-up, spontaneous retrieval can be triggered by cues that have been associated with the intention and that sustained attentional proce ...[more]