Before You Take Your Medication
Let's remember what you used to take at this time...
Metformin 500mg
Blue oval pill
Evidence-Based Medication Memory
Based on cognitive neuroscience research on memory updating
Sarah's doctor changed her morning diabetes medication from a blue pill to a white pill yesterday.
Let's see how MedShift helps her remember the change...
Time for your morning medication
The app triggers at your normal medication time (8:15 AM) to engage your existing routine memory.
Let's remember what you used to take at this time...
Actively retrieving your old medication memory strengthens it and prepares your brain for comparison with the new routine.
Based on your past routine...
I expect to take:
Making an explicit prediction creates a "prediction error" when you see something different—this strengthens memory updating.
Take the WHITE pill now
Explicit prediction errors improve memory updating. You expected blue, but it's white now! This mismatch signal helps your brain encode the change.
Let's strengthen this memory...
Encoding the ENTIRE sequence (retrieval + prediction + error + change) creates a "recursive representation" that prevents interference.
Sarah has been taking the white pill all week using MedShift's memory-strengthening system.
Let's test if she remembers the change...
What medication do you take in the morning?
Hint: Try "White pill - Metformin XR"
This tests if Sarah remembers her CURRENT medication.
Did this medication change recently?
This tests CHANGE DETECTION—does Sarah remember that her medication changed?
What was it before?
Hint: Try "Blue pill - Metformin 500mg"
This tests CHANGE RECOLLECTION—does Sarah remember WHAT it was before?
Because you have a complete memory of the change, you're much less likely to:
MedShift is based on Event Memory Retrieval and Comparison (EMRC) theory from cognitive neuroscience.
Wahlheim & Zacks (2024)
"Memory updating and the structure of event representations"
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Retrieving old memories BEFORE new events strengthens updating
Making explicit predictions creates prediction errors that improve memory
Encoding the full change sequence prevents interference
"Recursive representations" turn interference into facilitation