ABSTRACT
Research on prospective memory has now reached the point at which it is no longer necessary to start a chapter with a denition of prospective memory or a discussion about its dening features and how it differs from retrospective memory. This has been done repeatedly elsewhere (e.g., see Einstein & McDaniel, 1996; Ellis, 1996; Graf & Uttl, 2001; Guajardo & Best, 2000; Kvavilashvili, 1992; Kvavilashvili & Ellis, 1996). Instead, we start the chapter by examining briey some statistics on prospective memory research in the past 30 years, and possible reasons for the almost complete lack of research on the development of prospective memory. We then discuss methodological issues that arise in this research, review some experimental data, and outline future directions in this unduly neglected area of prospective memory.
