Who benefits most? Exploring age effects of episodic future thinking and enactment encoding on prospective memory from childhood to middle adulthood

= 90). Participants were randomly assigned to an EFT, EE, or standard encoding condition and completed a novel computerised PM task. A significant main effect of encoding condition emerged. Overall, participants in the EE condition outperformed those in both the EFT and standard encoding conditions, with no evidence that this benefit differed by age group. Contrary to expectations, EFT did not improve PM performance relative to standard encoding. This unexpected finding is discussed in terms of cue focality and high ongoing task demands.