ABSTRACT
University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom
T his book is testament to the wonderful advances that have been achieved in the last few years in the eld of prospective memory (PM1) research. However this is still a very new area of study. Also relatively new are the methods in cognitive neuroscience that enable us to localize the neural underpinnings of specic behavioral functions. So one might expect, at this early scientic stage, that the evidence that links particular brain regions to PM might be somewhat contradictory. Very surprisingly, however, this is not the case, at least for the frontal lobes. There is a general consensus that the executive functions of the frontal lobes play some part in supporting PM. This comes both from evidence of structural abnormality in the frontal lobes in people with an acquired PM decit (e.g., Fortin, Godbout, & Braum, 2003) or through studies linking executive processing with PM performance (e.g., Kliegel, Eschen, & Thone-Otto, 2004; Knight, Titov, & Crawford, 2006; Mantyla, 2003; Marsh & Hicks, 1998; McDaniel, Glisy, Rubin, Guynn, & Routhieaux, 1999; Salthouse, Berish, & Siedlecki, 2004; but see Mathias & Manseld, 2005).
