Remembering to remember

An emerging construct: carrying out an intended action after a delay filled with other activity. Splits into time-based and event-based. Depends on rostral prefrontal cortex.

Learning & memory increases it.

Prospective memory is a measured subdomain of the learning-and-memory cognitive domain. doi 10.1111/jnp.12388 · PMC3621687

It increases Learning & memory.

Each cognitive domain consists of more granular cognitive types. Front Psychiatry 2018;9:461.

It increases Planning.

Verbatim: 'not PM function as such, but only specific subprocesses of PM - such as planning of an intention or the initiation and execution of PM responses requiring executive control - and rely on the prefrontal cortex' (PMC4848737, PMC3590133, PMID 21048200). Scope (patient observational study): clinical cohorts (ADHD, schizophrenia, JME); planning measured as a component of complex PM paradigms. The relationship is bidirectional. PMID 21048200 · PMC4848737

It increases Living independently.

10.66285/JAMS.2026.082 — Major neurocognitive disorder is diagnosed when cognitive decline interferes with independence in everyday activities; the DSM-5 functional criterion was revised so the threshold emphasizes loss of independence in daily living. Sachdev 2014, Nat Rev Neurol 10:634-642 — Classifying neurocognitive disorders: the DSM-5 approach. doi 10.1038/nrneurol.2014.181 That criterion is stated of the cognitive deficits COLLECTIVELY, as the mild-versus-major threshold - it does not attribute loss of independence to this one subdomain, so the arrow is carried by its own study: 'PM is an important cognitive ability for successful and independent everyday life beyond vocabulary'. doi 10.66285/JAMS.2026.082

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