ABSTRACT
The term Prospective Memory (PM) may seem to signal a new memory store, one additional box to add to the diagrams that explain memory processes. In deed, some of the literature on PM that attempts to differentiate PM from other kinds of memory strengthens this attitude (Kvavilashvili, 1987). Probably the question is not clearly put. The problem is not to demonstrate that PM is differ ent from short term memory (STM) or long term memory (LTM), but to define which processes are involved in PM, or which task requirements are present in a certain PM test. One way to achieve this goal is to utilize neuropsychological methodology.
