GENERAL INFORMATION

Title of Publication: Incentives and practice improve prospective memory in older adults (accepted for publication in Aging Clinical and Experimental Research).
Authors: Menéndez-Granda, M., Schmidt, N., Orth, M., Horn, S., Kliegel, M. & Peter, J. 
Status: accepted for publication

DATA SETS (long-format; n = 132; Not applicable or NA: missing values). Each data set is available in .csv format
1. Data_clock_checks.csv 
2. Data_Event_based.csv
3. Data_sociodemographic.csv
4. Data_trials_OGPM.csv
5. Data_trials_OGtype.csv
6. Data_trials_PM_accuracy.csv
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1. Data_clock_checks.csv: clock monitoring data (time-based task)
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Participant: Participant's number
Incentive_type: Type of incentive (gain- or loss-related incentives)
PM_item: Prospective memory trial in each block (from 1 to 10)
Time_period: Time period in which participant's have check the clock (before30: 30 to 15 seconds before the target time; before15: 15 to 0 seconds before the target time; after15: 0 to 15 seconds after the target time; after30: 15 to 30 seconds after the target time)
Clock_monitoring: Number of clock checks
Blocks: blocks of time in which the task was divided (1: first part of the task containing the first five prospective memory trials; 2: second part of the task containing the second five prospective memory trials)


2. Data_Event_based.csv: event-based prospective task data
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Participant: Participant's number
Incentive_type: Type of incentive (gain- or loss-related incentives)
PM_item: Prospective memory trial in each block (from 1 to 10)
Accuracy: Accuracy for each event-based trial (1: correct; 0: incorrect)
RTs: Response times for each event-based trial
Blocks: Blocks of time in which the task was divided (1: first part of the task containing the first five prospective memory trials; 2: second part of the task containing the second five prospective memory trials)


3. Data_sociodemographic.csv: sociodemographic data
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Participant: Participant's number
PM_type: prospective memory type (EBPM: event-based prospective memory; TBPM: time-based prospective memory)
Incentive_type: Type of incentive (gain- or loss-related incentives)
Age: Participant's age
Gender: Participant's gender 
Health: perceived health (very good, good, average, bad, very bad)
Retirement: Retirement status (retired or not retired)
Thrift: Participant's answer to the question "I have enough money for a comfortable life": true, rather true, rather not true, not true, missing
Income: Participant's reported monthly income
Donation: Participant's reported donation frequency (regularly, rarely, never, missing)
Education: Highest educational level in years


4. Data_trials_OGPM.csv
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Participants: Participant's number
PM_type: Prospective memory type (EBPM: event-based prospective memory; TBPM: time-based prospective memory)
Incentive_type: Type of incentive (gain- or loss-related incentives)
OGPM_accuracy: Accuracy for each ongoing trial during the prospective memory block (1: correct; 0: incorrect)
Blocks: Blocks of time in which the task was divided (1: first part of the task containing the first five prospective memory trials; 2: second part of the task containing the second five prospective memory trials)
RT_OGPM: Response times for each ongoing trial during the prospective memory block 


5. Data_trials_OGtype.csv
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Participants: Participant's number
PM_type: Prospective memory type (EBPM: event-based prospective memory; TBPM: time-based prospective memory)
Incentive_type: Type of incentive (gain- or loss-related incentives)
OG_type: Type of ongoing task (Ogonly: ongoing only block;OgPM: ongoing during prospective memory block)
Accuracy: Accuracy for each ongoing trial (1: correct; 0: incorrect)
RTs: Response times for each ongoing trial 


6. Data_trials_PM_accuracy.csv
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Participant: Participant's number
PM_task_type: Prospective memory type (EBPM: event-based prospective memory; TBPM: time-based prospective memory)
Incentive_type: Type of incentive (gain- or loss-related incentives)
PM_item: Prospective memory trial in each block (from 1 to 10)
Accuracy: Accuracy for each prospective memory trial (1: correct; 0: incorrect)
Blocks: Blocks of time in which the task was divided (1: first part of the task with the ongoing trials containing the first five prospective memory trials; 2: second part of the task with the ongoing trials containing the second five prospective memory trials)