Outsourcing memory to external tools: A review of 'intention offloading'

SJ Gilbert, A Boldt, C Sachdeva, C Scarampi… - Psychonomic Bulletin & …, 2023 - Springer
How do we remember delayed intentions? Three decades of research into prospective
memory have provided insight into the cognitive and neural mechanisms involved in this …

Improving children's ability to remember intentions: a literature review on strategies to improve prospective memory during childhood

M Cottini - Psychological Research, 2023 - Springer
Children often fail to remember executing intentions because prospective memory (PM)
does not completely develop until late adolescence or young adulthood. PM failures are …

How executive functions are associated with event-based and time-based prospective memory during childhood

S Zuber, CEV Mahy, M Kliegel - Cognitive Development, 2019 - Elsevier
A key developmental task of childhood is to gain autonomy and independence from parents
and caregivers. Critical to this individualization process is the development of prospective …

[HTML][HTML] Children devise and selectively use tools to offload cognition

A Bulley, T McCarthy, SJ Gilbert, T Suddendorf… - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
From maps sketched in sand to supercomputing software, humans ubiquitously enhance
cognitive performance by creating and using artifacts that bear mental load [1–5]. This …

Creativity and flexibility in young children's use of external cognitive strategies.

KL Armitage, T Suddendorf, A Bulley… - Developmental …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
A cardinal feature of adult cognition is the awareness of our own cognitive struggles and the
capacity to draw upon this awareness to offload internal demand into the environment. In …

The development of children's prospective memory: Lessons for developmental science

CEV Mahy - Child Development Perspectives, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The study of children's prospective memory has gained new momentum over the past 20
years and is now an active area of research in cognitive development. Yet, this resurgence …

“I'll remember everything no matter what!”: The role of metacognitive abilities in the development of young children's prospective memory

L Lavis, CEV Mahy - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2021 - Elsevier
Prospective memory (PM), the ability to remember to carry out future intentions, is a critical
skill for children's daily activities. Despite this, little is known about young children's …

A hidden Markov model for analyzing eye-tracking of moving objects: Case study in a sustained attention paradigm

J Kim, S Singh, ED Thiessen, AV Fisher - Behavior research methods, 2020 - Springer
Eye-tracking provides an opportunity to generate and analyze high-density data relevant to
understanding cognition. However, while events in the real world are often dynamic, eye …

Effects of incidental reminders on prospective memory in children.

N Ryder, L Kvavilashvili, R Ford - Developmental Psychology, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Prospective memory (PM) involves remembering to carry out intended actions in the future
(eg, posting a letter on the way to school or passing on a message) and is important for …

Contribution of executive functions to learning sequential actions in young children

K Yanaoka, S Saito - Child Development, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This study examined whether executive functions impact how flexibly children represent task
context in performing repeated sequential actions. Japanese children in Experiments 1 (N …