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Acute stress improves prospective memory performance in young adults

Szőllősi, Ágnes

Pajkossy, PĂŠter

Demeter, Gyula

KĂŠri, Szabolcs

RacsmĂĄny, MihĂĄly

2016-07

BF10 Emotions. Affections / ĂŠrzelem

BF13 Memory and learning / emlĂŠkezet, tanulĂĄs

Although a long line of studies showed that acute stress affects memory, interestingly, the
possible relationship between stress and the maintenance of future-related actions and
intentions (prospective memory, PM) is relatively understudied. Participants (young adults)
were exposed to either a stress-inducing task (Socially Evaluated Cold Pressor Test) or a
control procedure followed by three computer-controlled PM paradigms. In the event-based
PM tasks, stressed subjects responded to the PM cues faster than controls. In the time-based
task, stressed subjects checked the time counter clock less frequently than controls, i.e., they
performed the task as successfully as the control participants but without extra monitoring
behavior. Our results suggest that acute stress improves performance when individuals
execute planned actions and intentions.

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text

http://real.mtak.hu/40472/1/Abstract_ICOM6_StressPM.pdf

Szőllősi, Ágnes and Pajkossy, Péter and Demeter, Gyula and Kéri, Szabolcs and Racsmány, Mihály (2016) Acute stress improves prospective memory performance in young adults. In: 6th International Conference on Memory – ICOM6, 17-22 Júl 2016, Budapest.

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