An introduction to prospective time estimation and prospective memory

What is it about?

Much as one might argue that a cognitive timer is essential for a time-based Prospective Memory, one cannot escape the fact that in postulating a process of time checking lasting up until the time when it is appropriate to act, emphasis has been placed (explicitly or implicitly) on the environmental cue which terminates this process, since time-based tasks appear to be less self-initiated than previously thought. Furthermore, given that the process might extend over a rather long period, one has to acknowledge that events occurring during this period will themselves have an influence on the perception of time.

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