Clock checking as a marker of goal maintenance in a multi-element prospective remembering task

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Event Abstract Back to Event Clock checking as a marker of goal maintenance in a multi-element prospective remembering task S. M. Baylan1* and J. J. Evans1 1 University of Glasgow, Section of Psychological Medicine, United Kingdom Many goal directed behaviours require prospective remembering. This ability may be compromised following brain injury, particularly following frontal lobe injury, and is known to decline with age. This study examined the effect of age on performance on a modified version of the Hotel Test (Manly et al., 2002) and explored whether frequency of clock-checking, conceptualised as an indicator of goal maintenance, mediated performance. Twenty older-(mean age 69.6, SD 4.6) and twenty younger adults (mean age 21.1, SD 1.59) completed the Modified Hotel Test (mHT) and two questionnaires (CFQ and PRMQ) to measure the frequency of cognitive/memory failures in everyday life. Older people detected significantly fewer (p<0.05) prospective memory (PM) targets and made significantly fewer clock-checks (p<0.05) on the mHT. Clock-checking showed significant correlation (r = .318) with performance, with those having fewer than two clock-checks detecting significantly fewer PM targets than those with two or more checks. Despite a poorer performance on the task, older participants did not report a greater number of failures in everyday life. The mHT is sensitive to the effects of ageing though did not predict self-rated performance in everyday life. Frequency of clock-checks appeared to be a potentially useful marker of goal maintenance. Conference: The 20th Annual Rotman Research Institute Conference, The frontal lobes, Toronto, Canada, 22 Mar - 26 Mar, 2010. Presentation Type: Poster Presentation Topic: Aging Citation: Baylan SM and Evans JJ (2010). Clock checking as a marker of goal maintenance in a multi-element prospective remembering task. Conference Abstract: The 20th Annual Rotman Research Institute Conference, The frontal lobes. doi: 10.3389/conf.fnins.2010.14.00094 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 29 Jun 2010; Published Online: 29 Jun 2010. * Correspondence: S. M Baylan, University of Glasgow, Section of Psychological Medicine, Glasgow, United Kingdom, satu.baylan@glasgow.ac.uk Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers S. M Baylan J. J Evans Google S. M Baylan J. J Evans Google Scholar S. M Baylan J. J Evans PubMed S. M Baylan J. J Evans Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.