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ArticleTitle	Note-taking as a strategy for improvement in the performances of time-based tasks of the Cambridge Prospective Memory Test
Language	J
AuthorList	Nobuko Ota¹⁾³⁾, Jun Tanemura²⁾
Affiliation	¹⁾Graduate School of Health Science and Technology, Kawasaki University of Medical Welfare ²⁾Department of Sensory Science, Kawasaki University of Medical Welfare ³⁾Department of Rehabilitation Center, Kawasaki Medical School Kawasaki Hospital
Publication	Japanese Journal of Neuropsychology: 29 (2), 133-142, 2013
Received	Mar 10, 2011
Accepted	Oct 10, 2012
Abstract	Notes as external memory aid were allowed to use in the Cambridge Prospective Memory Test (CAMPROMPT). We investigated whether note-taking improved the performances of time-based tasks of the CAMPROMPT among the healthy young subjects. And subjects with brain injury and healthy control subjects were compared on the CAMPROMPT performances and the effectiveness of notes. The notes improved the CAMPROMPT performances in all the subjects. The notes were supposed to be a strategy to encode prospective memory and to make temporal integration between the execution of the ongoing task and the prospective activity. Subjects with brain injury took less effective notes. In order to take effective notes, divided attention was related to interrupting ongoing task, and meta-memory was related to editing instruction of the task.
Keywords	prospective memory, time-based task, external memory aid, temporal integration, effective note