ABSTRACT
Although researchers have been interested in remembering to carry out future actions for at least 100 years (cf. Colegrove, 1898), there was little research re ported on the topic until the 1970s. From an historical perspective, this is not surprising given that prospective remembering is a complex task that did not fit easily within the associationistic tradition that dominated much of the re search on human memory. However, with the shift toward cognitive psychology, and especially with the renewed interest in everyday memory, a substantial body of research on prospective remembering is accumulating. Nevertheless, even among the studies that have been reported, there is less advancement than one might have expected, both in terms of the development of exper imental paradigms and in the extent and sophistication of the conceptual analyses.
