Prospective Memory Impairment and Executive Dysfunction in Prefrontal Lobe Damaged Patients: Is There a Causal Relationship?

Figure 3

The figure reports two trials of the event-based PM task used in the present study. The first trial does not include a PM target whereas the second does. Each experimental block includes 48 trials. Four of them include a PM target (percentage of PM trials is around 8% of the whole trials). The example reported in the figure is from the experimental block with forward recall as the ongoing task and just one PM target word. In the other experimental blocks varied the order of recall in the ongoing task (forward versus backward) and/or the number of PM target words (1 versus 4).