ABSTRACT

Featuring contributions from world-leading experts, this book presents a timely overview of current theoretical, methodological, and applied issues in the field of prospective memory. The authors explore how prospective memories are formed, how they are maintained over time, and how they are retrieved. This volume integrates our understanding of prospective memory and how it functions with related cognitive processes and themes, such as context memory, metamemory, working memory, and cognitive control. Considering recent methodological advances in the field, such as the use of cognitive modeling, the book also covers individual differences in prospective memory abilities, their development across the life span, and their manifestations in naturalistic settings. The book also illustrates how the understanding of prospective memory can be integrated with other related research areas.

Prospective Memory is an invaluable resource for students and researchers of human memory.

chapter 1|9 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|17 pages

The multiprocess framework

Historical context and the “dynamic” extension

chapter 3|17 pages

Prospective memory in context

Methods, findings, and future directions

chapter 5|18 pages

Metacognition of prospective memory

Will I remember to remember?

chapter 10|13 pages

Take the field!

Investigating prospective memory in naturalistic and real-life settings