Timing the Future: The Case for a Time-based Prospective Memory

✍ Scribed by Joseph Glicksohn, Michael S Myslobodsky

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 323
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this volume, leading researchers bring together current work on time perception and time-based prospective memory in order to understand how people time their intentions. This is the first account of many important topics concerning the timing of behavior, offered by scientists of diverse fields who in the past have exhibited an attitude of mutual 'benign neglect'. An explication of the rules which govern timing the future are of fundamental interest to anyone who wishes to explore the potential of human experience. Prospective memory - especially time-based - is a relatively unexplored way to study memory and few studies have been devoted to its neurobiological foundations. This volume aims to fill this void and will boost further interest in the field, while stimulating interdisciplinary research.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Introduction......Page 12
Conceptual and Method Issues......Page 13
Theoretical Models......Page 14
Time Perception and Aging......Page 17
Time-Based Prospective Memory......Page 19
Basic Properties of Time-Based Prospective Memory......Page 20
Age-Related Changes in Time-Based Prospective Memory......Page 22
What, if Anything, is Special about Time-Based Prospective Memory?......Page 26
Conclusions......Page 31
References......Page 32
Introduction......Page 36
Time-Based Prospective Remembering......Page 37
Prospective Duration Judgment......Page 39
Attentional-Gate Model......Page 41
Prospective Timing and Executive Functions......Page 44
Attentional-Gate Model: Successful and Future Predictions for Time-Based Prospective Remembering......Page 45
Event-Based Prospective Remembering......Page 47
Four Relevant Stages......Page 48
Recursive-Reminding Model: Successful and Future Predictions for Event-Based Prospective Remembering......Page 52
Situations Involving Mixed Time-Based and Event-Based Prospective Remembering......Page 53
Ordinary Sleep and Time-Based Prospective Remembering......Page 54
Summary and Conclusions......Page 55
References......Page 56
Introduction: Attending in Time......Page 62
Attending and Processing Time......Page 63
Attending and Relative Time......Page 64
Dynamic Attending Theory (DAT): Periodicities in Time......Page 66
The Function of Event Time Structure......Page 68
Theoretical Assumptions of DAT......Page 69
Attending in Real Time......Page 71
Dynamics of Attending to Pitch......Page 75
Comments on Tasks, Time Scales and Attending Modes......Page 77
Time Perception and DAT......Page 79
General Comments on Prospective Tasks Versus Retrospective Strategies......Page 80
Prospective Time Judgments......Page 83
Memory in DAT......Page 92
References......Page 94
Introduction and Overview......Page 98
Prospective Memory and Time......Page 99
The Problems of Neural Space-Codes, Time-Codes and Temporal Binding......Page 100
The Timing of Volition and Actions......Page 101
Linking Hypotheses and Consciousness......Page 103
Comparison of Physical, Neural and Experiential Timing......Page 104
How a Paradigm of Simplicity (Latency of Flash Perception) Ends in Illusion......Page 106
Perceived Motion as a Possible Reference for Visual Space-Time Experiences......Page 107
Libet’s Problem for Conscious Perception......Page 110
Asynchrony Detection as a Method to Time Experiences......Page 112
Timing Voluntary Decisions and the Partial Liberation of Our Will......Page 116
Duration Coding......Page 117
References......Page 121
CHAPTER 5 At the Crossroads of Time and Action: A Temporal Discounting Primer for Prospective Memory Researchers Thomas S. Critchfield and Gregory J. Madden......Page 128
Impulsiveness and “Temporal Myopia”......Page 129
Impulsiveness and the Battle of Selves......Page 130
How TD is Studied......Page 131
Individual Differences in Discounting Functions......Page 133
Failure of the Will: Preference Reversal......Page 134
Three Situational Influences on TD......Page 135
Two Unanswered Questions about TD......Page 138
TD and Drug-Treatment Approaches......Page 139
Consequences and Memory......Page 141
TD and Prospective Memory......Page 143
Conclusions: Behavioral Choice Theory and Prospective Memory......Page 147
References......Page 148
Introduction......Page 154
The Nature of Time Management......Page 155
Measuring Time Management......Page 156
Time Management and Prospective Memory......Page 157
Time Management—Inherited and/or Learnt?......Page 158
Ability to Estimate Time Accurately......Page 159
The Planning Fallacy......Page 161
Time Management and the Planning Fallacy......Page 163
Monitoring Time......Page 164
Time-Related Personality Characteristics......Page 165
Time Urgency......Page 166
Procrastination......Page 167
Polychronicity......Page 169
Situational Effects......Page 172
The Potential Outcomes of the Use of Time Management as a Compensatory or Aiding Strategy for Prospective Memory......Page 173
Summary......Page 174
References......Page 176
Introduction......Page 182
Level of Construal......Page 183
The Effect of Temporal Distance on Mental Representation......Page 184
Prediction......Page 188
Evaluation and Behavior......Page 190
Temporal Distance as a Dimension of Psychological Distance......Page 196
Conclusion......Page 197
References......Page 198
Time Monitoring and Cognitive Control in Children and Adults......Page 202
Characteristics of Strategic Monitoring......Page 203
Time Monitoring Children and Adults......Page 204
Time Monitoring in Younger and Older Adults......Page 208
Time Monitoring and Executive Control Functions......Page 213
Conclusions......Page 217
References......Page 218
Introduction......Page 224
The Frontal Lobes......Page 227
The Frontal Lobes......Page 228
The Cerebellum......Page 232
The Basal Ganglia......Page 233
The Parietal Lobes......Page 234
Neural Correlates of Temporal Foresight......Page 235
General Conclusions......Page 236
References......Page 241
Introduction......Page 250
Perception of Time and Prospective Memory: Neurological Evidence......Page 251
Anecdotal and Observational Evidence: Questionnaire Studies......Page 253
Prospective Memory in Neurological Conditions......Page 256
Empirical Evidence......Page 257
Evidence from “Everyday” Actions......Page 264
Is There a Unique Role for Time in Prospective Memory?......Page 265
Conclusions......Page 266
References......Page 270
Introduction......Page 274
A Tribute to Lewin......Page 275
Intentionality and Action......Page 277
The Cinderella Problem......Page 279
Hard-Wired Timing and a ProM Clock......Page 281
Personal Time and Time Discounting: The Next Frontier of Prospective Memory?......Page 284
Error Monitoring......Page 287
Are Errors all Bad?......Page 290
“Mental Trip” in Timing Intentions......Page 291
Bridging Between ProM and Internal Timing......Page 294
The Environmental Modulation of Time-Based ProM......Page 295
Time-Based Prospective Memory as an Instrument of Reward and of Social Skill......Page 298
Memory for Future Events: What Lies Ahead?......Page 302
References......Page 307
Index......Page 318