DAILY MEMORY ISSUES: NATURE, CORRELATES, AND CONSEQUENCES

Johanna Hartung, Gizem Hueluer · 2024

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Johanna Hartung and Gizem Hueluer study, in a 2024 paper, everyday memory lapses as they happen, rather than as people later remember them. Three hundred twenty-five adults, from students to the mid-thirties, answered phone prompts three times a day for ten days. Each check-in asked about lapses, current activity, mood, and a quick working memory task. A one-off questionnaire at the end captured how lapse-prone each person believed they were.

People who rated themselves as lapse-prone did report more lapses in the moment checks too. Yet real-time lapse counts had no link to working memory scores, while the after-the-fact counts did. Lapses clustered on busy, low-mood occasions. The authors conclude that everyday lapses may signal a cognitively full life more than a failing memory, a distinction that matters for how such complaints are judged.

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CREATORJohanna Hartung, Gizem Hueluer
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE2 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11690197

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