ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses an expansive literature that spans a host of sub-areas within prospective memory (PM). Researchers have been highly successful in developing creative and interesting paradigms for studying PM. Formal models and techniques for describing and capturing PM processes are becoming standard in the PM literature. One aspect of PM in natural settings is that people often generate their own intentions, unlike laboratory PM paradigms in which intentions are generated by an experimenter. Researchers have been energetic in exploring the neurological underpinnings of PM. A central finding in the literature is that in many instances the PM task will incur penalties to performance of the ongoing activity in which the PM task is embedded. This chapter suggests that theoretical, methodological, and empirical accomplishments and foundation will propel new and even deeper understanding of PM.
