Memory for goals: an activation-based model

By Erik M. Altmann, J. Gregory Trafton. Cognitive Sciences, 2002

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Just more of the same, or different? An integrative theoretical framework for the study of cumulative interruptions at work (2015, background): “An integrative theoretical framework for the study of cumulative interruptions at work”
On the need for attention-aware systems: Measuring effects of interruption on task performance, error rate, and affective state (2006, background): “Trafton et al. (2003) found that interrupting a battlefield simulation task disrupts completion time and attributed the degradation to the cognitive system seeking to re-activate previously suspended goals (Altmann & Trafton, 2002).”
Pardon the Interruption: An Integrative Review and Future Research Agenda for Research on Work Interruptions (2019, background): “…articles in the field of management (Jett & George, 2003; Perlow, 1999) and several more from other disciplines (e.g., Adamczyk & Bailey, 2004; Altmann & Trafton, 2002; Chisholm, Collison, Nelson, & Cordell, 2000; Czerwinski, Horvitz, & Wilhite, 2004; Gillie & Broadbent, 1989; González &…”
An Empirical Examination of the Educational Impact of Text Message-Induced Task Switching in the Classroom: Educational Implications and Strategies to Enhance Learning (2011, background): “For example, Altmann and Trafton (2004) studied resumption lag, defined as the time interval between the completion of the secondary (interrupting) task and the first action in returning to the primary task, and found substantial resumption lags after being interrupted. In an observational study ove”
Preparing to resume an interrupted task: effects of prospective goal encoding and retrospective rehearsal (2003, methodology): “After this lookahead planning, the problem solver often retrieves the suspended goal from memory to see if progress on that goal is now possible (Anderson and Douglass, 2001; Altmann and Trafton, 2002).”
Enabling effective human-robot interaction using perspective-taking in robots (2005, background): “A clear example of this comes from spatial reasoning, where in general, people seem to use a combination of spatial and propositional knowledge [9], [ 31 ]‐[36].”
Does multitasking with mobile phones affect learning? A review (2016, background): “The third component, the memory-for-goals theory, concerns with the recovery/resume time of the initial task after interrupted by another task (Altmann & Trafton, 2002).”
Threaded cognition: an integrated theory of concurrent multitasking. (2008, background): “They found that, when interrupted, people used the interruption lag to prepare for later resumption of the interrupted task (see also Altmann & Trafton, 2002 ).”
An exploratory field experiment of the effect of subconscious and conscious goals on employee performance (2009, methodology): “This experimental technique is referred to as supraliminal priming in that participants are aware of the prime, that is, the semantic words, but not of the pattern or goal that is being activated (Bargh & Chartrand, 2000). In summarizing the research on primed goals, Bargh and Barndollar (1996) stat”
Facebook and texting made me do it: Media-induced task-switching while studying (2013, background): “The final part of the Unified Theory of Multitasking, necessary for handling sequential multitasking, is Memory for Goal Theory (Altmann & Trafton, 2002), which explains how when we attempt to multitask, the new task goal must be activated more than the old task goal, which then begins to lose…”
If not now, when?: the effects of interruption at different moments within task execution (2004, background): “After interruption, the next schematic event could be quickly recalled from memory and execution could resume with potentially little disruption [1, 34].”
Interruptions to workflow: Their relationship with irritation and satisfaction with performance, and the mediating roles of time pressure and mental demands (2013, background): “If this activation level cannot be maintained because of a complex interruption task, forgetting of intentions is the consequence (Einstein et al., 2003; cf. goal-activation theory: Altmann & Trafton, 2002).”